Maryland Department of Disabilities
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT News, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Aids, Tech Tip Tuesday on Aug 6th, 2013
Sprint to bring Call Captioning to iOS devices Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP For some time, Sprint CapTel has offered telephones which will caption conversations in real-time. This would allow a user who is hard of hearing to listen as well as read the captioning of a conversation. Now, Sprint CapTel is […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Tech Tip Tuesday on Jul 30th, 2013
Seeing Assistant Home Lite Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Transition Technologies has recently released the app Seeing Assistant Home. The lite version of the app is free, and it provides several useful tools. The “light detector” changes pitch as the level of light, as detected by the rear camera, increases or decreases. […]
Posted in AT News, Information Technology, Tech Tip Tuesday, Web Accessibility on Jul 23rd, 2013
Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP There is a great new Website–http://baltimorecode.org/. It’s all of the city’s codes and statutes laid out and available for anyone. It’s true that all of this information had been available previously. But often it required sifting through monolithic PDF files. Baltimorecode.org and it’s companion site marylandcode.org are […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT and the Law, AT News, Blind/Low Vision Aids , Information Technology, MD Technology Assistance Program, Tech Tip Tuesday on Jun 4th, 2013
Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP The World Intellectual Property Organization is considering a treaty which will make books more accessible to the blind. We think this is great news and would like to show our support for the treaty by signing a petition at whitehouse.gov: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/side-blind-over-obstructionist-companies-secure-treaty-blind-makes-books-accessible-globally/ZJtgcVph The below is an excerpt from […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT Events, Blind/Low Vision Aids , Communication Aids, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Aids, Learning Aids, Maryland, Mobility Aids, Tech Tip Tuesday on May 28th, 2013
Although 18% of US children are living with some type of disability, accessible sport and recreational programs are limited. Most often, children with severe physical disabilities are excluded from these programs completely. The Lollipop Kids Foundation, in collaboration with the Downtown Sailing Center, has developed a summer accessible sailing program which proves that “sailing is […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Blind/Low Vision Aids , Information Technology, MD Technology Assistance Program, Tech Tip Tuesday on May 21st, 2013
NVDA – The free, open-source screen reader Contributed by Joel Zimba, Technology Outreach Coordinator, MDTAP Traditional screen readers for Windows are expensive. They can cost anywhere from a few hundred to the low thousands of dollars. It’s not uncommon for assistive technology to cost more than the common off-the-shelf hardware with which it works. NVDA, […]
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