Posted in Computers and Software on Apr 27th, 2010 1 Comment »
iPad Could Be A Beneficial Device For The Disabled I’d change the title of the piece: The iPad IS a beneficial device for people with disabilities. I’m quite sure that my friend David Niemeijer is hard at work redoing his… wait, he’s already done it. As is stated in the piece, when you walk around [...]
Posted in Computers and Software, Social Issues and Ideas, Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill Alan Brightman who ran the Disabilities Solutions Group at Apple did a lot of work early on in this particular area. Reminds me of the presentation and article David Clark, Monika Koethnig and I did a while ago: Digital Independence which we did long before the current [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Mar 18th, 2010 3 Comments »
Kindle for Mac Install this free application on your Macintosh and connect to your Kindle account at Amazon to read books, just like on a kindle. Frankly, I’m amazed it took them this long to do this. I hope Apple does it with their iBooks application.
Posted in Computers and Software on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
The iPad is a natural for these kinds of books and activities. This is a mock up of some ideas for interactive books and learning tools for the iPad. Great stuff. [via Sanford Shapiro]
Posted in Computers and Software on Feb 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple iPad Thumbs-Up: Brain Fitness Value, and Limitations The user activity monitoring piece is not exactly an important limitation IMHO. I mean, the iPad isn’t an “integrated learning system” and if it were it would never appeal to it’s target audience: people who want to independently and easily get work done. [via Sanford Shapiro]
Posted in Computers and Software on Feb 16th, 2010 4 Comments »
Nuance buys up MacSpeech This is interesting news, speech to text is useful for many people including people with various kinds of disabilities.
Posted in Computers and Software on Jan 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Intel Reader Offers High Tech Help For Dyslexics and Visually Impaired Intel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review. This looks quite interesting. If anyone reading this has used [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Jan 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Dragon Dictation is a free iPhone application allows you to speak into the iPhone and have the audio turned into text. Here’s a link to Dragon Dictation at the iTunes Music Store.
Posted in Computers and Software on Dec 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Free Speech (Recognition) David Pogue on the new Dragon Dictation for iPhone, a free, speech to text application that, according to Pogue, works well. Read his review for his discussion of the privacy issues and more.
Posted in Computers and Software on Sep 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Apple’s Video Demo of the iPhone 3GS’s Accessibility Features Making a revolutionary mobile phone means making it easy for everyone to use. That’s why iPhone 3GS comes standard with accessibility features that help people with disabilities experience all that iPhone has to offer. Absolutely incredible. This may look awkward to a sighted person but if [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Mar 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Readability Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Very cool and interesting tool, worth a try, especially for weak readers or readers who are easily distracted by background images and text on the screen.
Posted in Computers and Software on Feb 16th, 2009 No Comments »
The Future of Reading: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update “It says the Indians enjoyed the cellphones and computers brought by Columbus!” Nozimakon exclaimed, pointing at the screen. “That’s wrong.” Hire that kid!