Did you know about SSB University? Everyone understands why wheelchair ramps and curb cuts are important – they allow access for people with disabilities. And just as physical structures need to be accessible, the same is true of digital content and technology. Digital accessibility is complex and requires very specialized knowledge – your Development and […]
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There’s a new book on the market that might be of interest to the AT Blog readers – The Home that Watches over Your Parents Product category: Activity tracking home sensor systems. Goals: Do these products work? Which ones are best? And for which types of people are they suitable? For whom is this work useful: Friends and […]
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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is now accepting applications for the 2015 Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Leadership Academy! The ACI summer leadership training prepares Autistic students to create systems change on their college campuses. Accepted applicants will travel to Washington, DC and participate in advocacy training from May 30 to June 6, 2015. Participants will acquire valuable […]
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A smart scarf that reads emotions, an ibrailler app (to start brailling on the iPad), prosthetics with a sense of touch, and much more. The future of human-centered technology is big and bright! Get a glimpse of some of it right here – AT in the news for the week of 1/19 thru 1/23 A […]
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Tech for Tots Designed to help preschool providers and parents quickly identify high quality apps that meet specific academic needs, Tech for Tots is an easy-to-use tool that offers ratings to over 100 distinct apps. Each is scored on a scale of 1-4 for a variety of categories including playability, feedback, interactivity, reporting and cost. […]
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Project: Possibility is a software collaboration for people with disabilities. The goal is to create and support innovative software projects that are empowering for the software developers that implement them and for the persons with disabilities that use them. This vision involves both innovating completely new software projects and contributing to and collaborating with existing open-source […]
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