Tracy Castillo, INDATA Program Manager, at Easterseals Crossroads shows us a feature in iPhone or iPad that allows you to take a picture of printed text and have it read to you. Check it out here: Click here for more information on Live Text OCR.
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Monday Tech Tip: Touchpad Mice
Brian Norton, Director of Assistive Technology discusses touchpad mice and how they can be helpful for someone with a mobility impairment. He shows one from Logitech that has the touchpad built-in to keyboard and a separate touchpad mouse from Keymecher. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about Logitech touchpad. Click here to […]
Monday Tech Tip: Tap to Alexa
Brian Norton, Director of Assistive Technology, at Easterseals Crossroads shows us Tap to Alex, which allows someone to use Alexa using touch on Echo devices that have a screen. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about Tap to Alexa.
Monday Tech Tip: Show Mode on Fire Tablet
Brian Norton, Director of Assistive Technology, at Easterseals Crossroads show us how to use the Show Mode feature on a Fire Tablet to turn the tablet into an Echo Show so you can control the device with voice commands. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about Show Mode.
Monday Tech Tip: Read Aloud
Brian Norton, Director of Assistive Technology, at Easterseals Crossroads shows us Read Aloud, which is a Google Chrome extension that allows a user to use text-to-speech technology that will convert webpages to audio. Users can also use Read Aloud to read PDFs, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon, Kindle, and EPUB out loud. This free […]
Monday Tech Tip: Lookout by Google
Brian Norton, Director of Assistive Technology, at Easterseals Crossroads shows us Lookout for Google, which enables individuals with low vision or blindness to scan food labels and identify them and scan barcodes, read text in documents, identify currency, and provides information about objects using the phone’s camera. Check it out here: Click here to learn […]