CICOA Provides Weekend Meals for Homebound Seniors

INDATA congratulates CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions for receiving a $70,000 grant from the Indianapolis Retirement Home Fund (IRH Fund), a CICF Fund, to provide weekend meals for 240 vulnerable homebound seniors.  The grant was made possible by the Elders at the Table project (EAT), which improves the fragmented food provision system for seniors in central […]

Product Review: RNIB PENfriend

If you like the LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen for taking notes at lectures, you’re going to love this assistive technology device for labeling household objects!  The PENfriend from Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) can record personal messages that are recalled by touching the tip of the pen to a label.  A person with low […]

Hear Indiana Youth Leadership Camp

Hear Indiana Youth Leadership Camp offers children and teenagers with hearing loss who are mainstreamed and using auditory oral communication, the opportunity to further their leadership and assertiveness skills in a structured atmosphere of “fun with a purpose.” The exciting camp experience is for youth ages 8-18. Activities are specifically designed for older campers ages […]

Accessible CAPTCHAs

You may recall a blog post we wrote a few months ago about audio CAPTCHAs and the problems they present.  We came to the conclusion that the audio CAPTCHAs option is usually too distorted for most people to interpret.  Since then we have discovered a few alternatives that may be more accessible. Images This type […]

Accessibility Webinars from EASI

Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) offers free 1 hour presentations on accessibility topics.  These topics cover a wide variety of assistive technology tools.  For example, on June 22, Robert Beach from Kansas City College will give a demonstration DAISY players.  EASI also has fee-based webinars with more detailed presentations on content for the web that […]