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Roundup: Skirting Shutdown; Is The Stage Set For a Senate 'Coup?'
Congress narrowly averted a shutdown again. Senator Liz Krueger discussed the possibility of a Republican coup in the state senate.
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If Accessible Taxi Fight Will Cost City $1 B., Why Not Make All Cabs...
That is the argument being put forth by a new accessibility group, AXS, which is also working on a map
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U.S. Attorney Sues the Related Companies, Robert A.M. Stern and Ismael Leyva,...
The U.S. Attorney’s office has hit one of New York’s biggest developers with a lawsuit claiming that two of its
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Marlee Matlin on the FCC's Feeble Attempts at Online Closed Captioning
For some of us, it’s all too easy to get lost in a seven-hour Netflix marathon, but for the deaf and
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VIP Experience: Visually Impaired Persons See Art Through Sensory Tours
Accessibility programs at NYC museums are proving that art does not have to be a privilege of sight.
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Gett Now Accessible to Blind Passengers
17-year-old expert software developer Adi Kushnir, who has been blind since birth, has changed Gett for the better.
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How Hooke Audio Has Readied Its Device to Work as a Camcorder for the Blind
Hooke Audio created The Verse so creators could capture the way human ears can detect sound's direction, which turned out to be an important use case for the blind.
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There may be more ways than ever to view art via your smartphone, but that doesn't mean the barriers to accessing art have been broken down.
View ArticleIncreasing Accessibility, Lincoln Center’s Passport to the Arts Goes Online
Lincoln Center's Passport to the Arts program has been running since 1989, but this is the first year it's online, bringing accessible programming to disabled audiences now through Zoom.
View ArticleArt Historians Take to TikTok to Shake Up the Narrative
In May 2021, Australian art historian and TikToker Mary McGillivray went viral for using her knowledge of visual geometry to debunk a claim that Eurovision winners Måneskin were snorting cocaine in the...
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After Nearly a Decade of Debate, There’s a New Definition of ‘Museum’
After seven years of at times fractious debate, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) finally has a new definition of “museum.” Throughout the process, ICOM painstakingly analyzed each word in...
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