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Apple receives Helen Keller Achievement Award for its VoiceOver accessibility tool

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="intro">Apple received the Helen Keller Achievement Award for its work in accessible technology.</p> <p>This evening at an event held by the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Apple received the Helen Keller Achievement Award for its breakthroughs in making technology accessible (http://www.imore.com/accessibility). Specifically, the AFB picked Apple for its efforts with VoiceOver, which reads out descriptions of what is happening on a device's display to users.</p> <!--break--> <p>At the event in New York this evening, AFB's vice president, Paul Schroeder, called Apple game-changing and transformative, noting that VoiceOver has changed the world:</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"VoiceOver came out...and the world changed." --VP Paul Schroeder on #Apple (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Apple?src=hash) and #accessibility (https://twitter.com/hashtag/accessibility?src=hash) #HKAA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HKAA?src=hash)</p>— AFB (@AFB1921) June 19, 2015 (https://twitter.com/AFB1921/status/611697233776496641) <script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Ahead of the event today, Apple updated the App Store with a new section highlighting apps that support VoiceOver (http://www.imore.com/apple-highlights-apps-support-voiceover-app-store). Other honorees for the evening are star of the Daredevil series, Charlie Cox; musician, Ward Marston; and Vanda Pharmaceuticals.</p> </div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' src='(http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/47601d08/sc/28/mf.gif)' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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