Introducing Lire Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Lire, from www.lireapp.com,just received an award from Applevis.com. It’s the editor’s pick this month and for good reason. Lire isn’t just another RSS reading app. It does some extra work behind the curtain to enhance the reading experience. Specifically, Rather than just presenting the short […]
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There’s a new app in town, and it goes by the name of SAM. Developed at the University of the West of England, SAM (short for Self-help for Anxiety Management) is a pretty comprehensive anxiety management app that includes an anxiety tracker, immediate exercises to help bring down anxiety levels, a customizable anxiety toolkit, and a […]
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More innovative, less expensive, and increasingly portable…just a few ways to describe some of the AT featured in this week’s awesome AT news, for the week of 4/28 thru 5/2 Google Glass apps for people with disability trialled by Telstra How do Mobile Apps Measure Up to Accessibility Standards? Ai Squared and GW Micro Merge: Two […]
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The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is exploring the feasibility of creating an app to make the resources available in the Find Services feature on its websites more easily available to eye care professionals, service providers (such as rehabilitation counselors, teachers of visually impaired students, orientation and mobility instructors, etc.), and consumers. The Find […]
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Audio Descriptions Difficulty: Advanced Category: Content Audio descriptions can enhance accessibility of video content for users who are blind or have other visual disabilities. Audio descriptions provide an auditory presentation of content that is presented visually, but not presented audibly in video. They typically take the form of a narrator that describes the important information […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP It’s going to rain all week. I mean all week. Sooner or later it will be time to sit down with a nice pot of tea and play a game (rather than being the global marketplace high-achiever your Mom believes you to be). So, instead of another […]
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