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(Israel21c) Abigail Klein Leichman - Two Israeli nonprofits have won Impact Challenge grants from Google to make the world more accessible to people with disabilities. Beit Issie Shapiro in Ra'anana received $1,000,000 toward the joint development with Sesame Enable of a free solution that will allow people with limited mobility to operate smartphones with head movements. It also received $700,000 to develop Makeathon-in-a-box, a template for community make-a-thons that bring makers and people with disabilities together to build prototypes of new solutions for accessibility challenges. Ezer Mizion of Bnei Brak won a $400,000 grant for its project with Israeli startup Click2speak to develop a keyboard controlled by eye tracking for people with limited mobility and high cognitive function. Click2Speak CTO Gal Sont, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2009, programmed an on-screen virtual keyboard controlled by eye tracking.2016-06-03 00:00:00Full Article
Israeli Startups Get Google Grants to Develop Accessibility Technology for the Disabled
(Israel21c) Abigail Klein Leichman - Two Israeli nonprofits have won Impact Challenge grants from Google to make the world more accessible to people with disabilities. Beit Issie Shapiro in Ra'anana received $1,000,000 toward the joint development with Sesame Enable of a free solution that will allow people with limited mobility to operate smartphones with head movements. It also received $700,000 to develop Makeathon-in-a-box, a template for community make-a-thons that bring makers and people with disabilities together to build prototypes of new solutions for accessibility challenges. Ezer Mizion of Bnei Brak won a $400,000 grant for its project with Israeli startup Click2speak to develop a keyboard controlled by eye tracking for people with limited mobility and high cognitive function. Click2Speak CTO Gal Sont, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2009, programmed an on-screen virtual keyboard controlled by eye tracking.2016-06-03 00:00:00Full Article
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