{"id":271,"date":"2011-10-21T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2011-11-29T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:57:42","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-friday-10212011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up Friday 10\/21\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT in the news for the week of 10\/17 &#8211; 10\/21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/pJywsB\">New apps <\/a>part of autistic kids&#8217; therapy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5wntt7z\">Raising the Standard<\/a> \u2013 a rating scheme for assistive technologies and aids to independent living<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4yydybg\">Matrix Maker <\/a>\u2013 symbols-signs-pictures-overlays<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/74qOU\">A blind geek&#8217;s<\/a> first impressions of <a title=\"#Siri\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23Siri\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">#<\/span><strong>Siri<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/accessibility-progress-report.html\">Google Public Policy Blog <\/a>&#8212; Accessibility: A Progress Report.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/tnw.co\/qGn6IO\">Android app <\/a>lets blind users type on a touchscreen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7277l\">MTV To Focus On Students With Disabilities <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/63e5e5x\">Disabled set to try out Essex University&#8217;s RoboChair<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6feghwb\">iPods give children plenty to talk about<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3dwdf2y\">WellPoint Offers Disabled Consumers Free Access to Assistive Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=271\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT in the news for the week of 10\/17 &#8211; 10\/21 New apps part of autistic kids&#8217; therapy Raising the Standard \u2013 a rating scheme for assistive technologies and aids to independent living Matrix Maker \u2013 symbols-signs-pictures-overlays A blind geek&#8217;s first impressions of #Siri Google Public Policy Blog &#8212; Accessibility: A Progress Report. This Android [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,4,5,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}