Where It's AT – Assistive Technology Blog

Here’s what’s new on Equipment Link Geri-Chair Recliner (blue, with tray) – $650 HoveRound FWD VR2 Power Chair – $650 Invacare Tilt and Recline Wheelchair w/ROHO cushion – Best Offer Child’s Gait Trainer – Best Offer Check these out and lots more at www.equipmentlink.org.

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AT in the news for the week of 6/17 thru 6/21 Should Dementia Patients Be GPS Tagged? For Those Unable to Speak and Move, Electronic Devices Provide a Voice New website offers recipe for successfully managing Parkinson’s Creating communities around transit will help you age in place easier, cheaper   Man and Robot: where will […]

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Animation Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Animation or other moving elements on a web page can be distracting to all users. Even simple animation can render a web page completely inaccessible to users with certain cognitive disabilities or high levels of distractibility. Animation should generally be avoided. Brief animations (ones that completely stop in less than […]

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Accessible Emergency Alerts Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Over the weekend AT&T pushed a Carrier Update to iPhones, specifically the 4S and 5, though there are reports of iPhone 4 receiving the update as well.  This update to the carrier settings enables emergency alerts from AT&T. After installing the update, I now […]

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It might be the beginning of summer but it’s not too early to start thinking about getting the beginning of the school year text books ready to go. And the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped maintains a program to help students who are blind or low vision access their textbooks in alternate formats. Maryland Accessible […]

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AT in the news for the week of 6/10 – 6/14 Baby Boomers Twice as Likely to Use an Assistive Walking Device Disability rights advocates and publishers push for national standards for ed tech materials Scientists find 2-step mechanism of inner ear tip link regrowth; potential for interventions to save hearing Travel & transportation industries […]

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