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Exploring the “Apps Jungle”
How do you determine if an app is accessible prior to buying it? How do you navigate the mass of available apps to find assistive and accessible apps relevant to you? Would you like to improve your app-buying experience? The World … Continue reading
Healthy Computing
Computers have evolved from from the salvation for people with disabilities to the cause of many disabling conditions. Our current computer-laden work and school environments have the potential to significantly damage our bodies. It is critical that we establish new … Continue reading
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How Stephen Hawking Uses a Computer
You’ve probably seen Stephen Hawking on TV. The world-famous physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, has a degenerative motor neuron disesase that, after several decades, has left him almost completely paralyzed, yet he still manages to speak using a computer generated … Continue reading
Voter Accessibility Feedback Wanted
Call me naive, but I would have thought that this long after the ADA was enacted, accessibility in voting places would be fairly well handled. Silly me! During the last election in 2008, only 27% of polling places were barrier-free. That means … Continue reading
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Take a Survey on Assistive Technology
The Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU) program is conducting a survey to assess the assistive technology needs of people with disabilities. They want to ascertain both the current availability of such technologies as well as the potential for new innovative devices. With this … Continue reading
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Talking Prescriptions
En-Vision America, along with the Walmart Mail Order Pharmacy, is conducting a pilot program called ScripTalk that offers talking prescription labels for the visually impaired. All the usual prescription label information is encoded into a special ScripTalk label which can be … Continue reading
Grand Opening of The Shop @ CIL
Come and celebrate the Grand Opening of THE SHOP at the Center for Independent Living on May 4 from 4:00 – 7:00 pm with demonstrations of assistive technology, information about The Shop, refreshments, and door prizes. The Shop provides wheelchair repairs and distributes donated … Continue reading
A Tongue Drive?
The idea of a dental switchboard that was tongue-controlled was first introduced by Alfred Bester in his 1956 award-winning science fiction novel, The Stars My Destination. Now that science fiction has become a reality. It’s called the Tongue Drive System. … Continue reading
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Beyond Wheelchairs
Wow, you gotta see this amazing device–it’s going to change lives. Turkish scientists have just introduced the Tec Robotic Mobilization Device that “not only allows people who can’t walk get around more independently than any device has before, but it … Continue reading
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The iPad Project
The Center for Accessible Technologies (Berkeley, CA) has an exciting new program for people with speech disabilities called The iPad Project. They have created a lending library of iPads and iPod Touches that are loaded with over 100 AAC (Augmentative … Continue reading
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