RT @CRPDisabilities:
Kinect-based system detects touch and gestures on any surface. This is cool, I guest with this you can make a touch screen of any size. I wonder if they would let me come play with it and hook it up to an App. like painter?
Posted 10/19/12
RT @madaQATC:
50 Useful Apps For Students With Reading Disabilities. I always said I was born at the wrong time. I have been told I have an old soul, but needed the tech tools of today and tomorrow. Most people say when I was your age I walk... Where as I can say I was doing long multiplication and division on a typewriter, not to mention algebra.
I did my first book report on the book "Are You My Mother". I typed the report on an Express 3 and my teacher taped it up on the wall in sun. Weeks later I looked at the report disappeared due to the sun.
Posted 10/17/12
By Richard Ellenson
Well, I created Panther Technology - a company that's creating innovative new apps to help unleash potential and create inclusion for people with disabilities. Everything from creating an innovative interface that can let many people with motoric disabilities completely control a computer, to one that lets people do math independently just by touching a screen, to our games, which provide inclusion and therapy.
I hope you'll check out our site at www.panthertechnology.com.
Posted 10/1/12
Now this is the cool stuff! But did not one for a full keyboard, I use the number pad for the mouse keys. ISkin
I saw a commercial this, you can tell it is not target for the disabled since the price is $14.95. I like the idea that it glows in the dark. https://www.getezeyes.com/
Posted 2/13/12
The Camera mouse for physically disabled people very special software. who are not able to use computer by hands. Free Download here. This look cool video, why didn't demo it a disabled person? I wonder how is works with a spastic user.
Camera Mouse
Posted 2/7/12
RT @accesstechgeek1: What E-Book Readers are the Most Accessible?
Posted 1/11/12
It is scary, but true how much I rely on my computer. When I am without my computer, I feel cut off from the out side world. Not only socially, but for taking care of bills, just maintaining things for daily living.
RT @CRPDisabilities: #Disabled to gain with drive for easy web design #A11y HT @origamiblue2010 http://ht.ly/8c7g3
Posted 12//28/11
For a few weeks
now I have been seeing Verizon commercials for home monitoring, this is target
for people that are always on the go. I think
this would also be going for disabled, by smart phone, or computer one can
control: locks, light, temperature, and camera. Of course the states it is only $9.99 a
month, what about getting this setup? The
Verizon start up kit runs from $69.99 to $219.99 that is one light control
unit. Then there is the cost of
installing all of these items.
I also looked up ADT and they really do not have anything for home environment controls. ADT
Some other link:
Smart Home USA
Best Buy
Icontrol
Posted 12/15/11
Posted 12/7/11
I know I talked
about the issue of touch screen devices not being a good idea for the disabled,
since these devices work by electric contact. Mostly for those how uses
some type of pointer. A for week ago I was talking with a OT, found a
video of using a piece of sponge to make the pointer into stylus. Also
now there are gloves with something in thing figure tip, so you do not need to
take off your glove to use your device. One could cut off the glove tip
and put it on the pointer.
11/3/11
Does anyone with a Quickey chair have a problem with the back wheel axcile
keep come loose? Second time of having them tighten, talk about Jeffy Lube keep
my ride a life! My friend Ron suggest can the nuts be replaced with the
nylon insert lock nuts?
www.mmsacc-stainless.com/html/nylon_lock_nuts.htm
or by using loctite?
www.loctiteproducts.com/threadlockers.shtml
Before 12/1/11
College
Websites remain inaccessible to PWD http://bit.ly/bzrSb3
TN Knoxville
Deaf center adds video relay services http://bit.ly/aP8Cl2
First Test of Sign Language by Cell Phone http://ff.im/-plzxD
Children's book
in sign language on iPad http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/an-ipad-book-for-the-deaf/
Equal Access to
Technology for Students with Special Needs http://ff.im/-pE5fG
Verizon Awards
$55,000 to Nonprofits That Use Technology to Help Persons with Disabilities http://ff.im/-pE5fz
World First
Robotic Legs Provide New Option for Wheelchair Users http://ff.im/-pDRfw
Wheelchair
design survey http://bit.ly/dmvPCa
DaVinci Award
nominees for adaptive ideas announced http://www.i-newswire.com/17-nominees-from-around-the-world/59289
nice design but
is it practical, then what hell does it cost? http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/image-of-the-da-32.php
this is what i
was hoping for, tech stuff for the disabiled going mainstream. This article is
right on from being more socially accepted to the price. i would hope that
grants would catch up. it would only make since that they would cover devices
that cost less annd can be used for mulitible task. it would also make other
companies rethink there device.
put i still bring up the question of the use of pointers on touch screens.
Parents use iPad for speech therapy - Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/9TManR /via @mhakkinen
AIM_Center Nat.
The iPad may be the best universal ebook reader thanks to Bluefire Reader http://zd.net/ggbO4v
The Gargantuan
Textbook Tablet http://ow.ly/3gOWh
are the
assurance cell plan really a good plan for the disabled and elderly. my big
hesitation would be the over usage charges, that would defeat the purpose of a
program as this. http://www.assurancewireless.com/Public/Welcome.aspx
www.parkingmobility.com
See a car parked without a placard? Parking Mobility enables users to report
when a car is parked illegally and to have it ticketed More Info
RT @EasyStand:
The touch screen Smart phone is heaven on earth for @tiffcarlson as a
#quadriplegic #assistivetechnology http://ht.ly/3U0KE
RT @enabledby:
Assistive Technology & #Design: check out the College of Occupational
Therapy @BAOTCOT event I spoke at last week here: http://bit.ly/hsqhI7
RT
@disabledworld: VoiceOver Compatible Apps for iPhone and Mac http://www.disabled-world.com/assistivedevices/apps/voiceover-applications.php
RT
@disabledworld: Windows Vista Speech Recognition and Narrator http://www.disabled-world.com/assistivedevices/computer/speech-recognition.php
RT
@usatechguide: RT @disabledworld Apple's iPad Helps Special-Needs Kids
Communicate http://ff.im/-zn0Et
RT
@disabledworld: Microsoft Announces Free Accessibility Tools and Training for
Developers http://ff.im/-ztMJu
RT @andyjb: RT
@TheConsultantsE: Tablets for Assistive Technology: http://goo.gl/mZbMp
#mlearning @djainslie via @adricarv worth a look @madaqatc
RT @AIM_Center:
National Federation of the Blind Urges Maryland Libraries to Purchase
Accessible E-readers - MarketWatch http://ow.ly/6bIXI
