Where It's AT – Assistive Technology Blog

It’s Tech Tip Tuesday and we don’t want to disappoint. Recently, we’ve started featuring short videos on new apps on the market. But what if you’re working with someone who can’t use the iPad in a traditional way? What if that person needs to use a switch instead? Enabling Devices has put together a helpful, […]

Read Full Post »

Chances are, if you’ve been on Facebook or the internet any time in the past few weeks, you’ve seen the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. In fact, half of us have probably even done it (thank you to everyone who has). It’s a tremendous boon to the research supporting finding a cure for ALS and other […]

Read Full Post »

Why Take Pictures If You Are Blind? Contributed by Lou Smith, Amateur photographer and rehabilitation counselor in Maryland As a person who is blind and uses an iPhone, this question has been posed to me. The logic behind the question is, as a person who is blind, what kind of enjoyment could I possibly derive […]

Read Full Post »

Captions and YouTube and what you need to know… It’s good practice to make sure that any video you post on YouTube be captioned. Here are some useful tips to make sure you’re making your video content as accessible as possible. For Closed Captioning of Videos All videos should have closed captioning. YouTube has a […]

Read Full Post »

Read Articles With Speaky Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Speaky is a simple, yet highly effective app which allows you to quickly add articles and have them read aloud.  By supplying the link to an article, Speaky processes the content and reads the text using the available speech engines from iOS. Much […]

Read Full Post »

The National Library Service (NLS) and the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing are now offering a free money identifier, the iBill, to all who qualify for the NLS. Check out our review of the iBill on our YouTube station, and let us know what you think!  

Read Full Post »