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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing, or other special needs! If you or someone you know experiences hearing loss, traditional bed alarms may not work.  iLuv […]

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Be My Eyes new Virtual Volunteer feature

Since 2015, Be My Eyes has worked to connect their 6.3 million volunteers to users with visual impairments to help with everyday tasks.  Their new Virtual Volunteer tool, currently in beta testing, will push them “further toward achieving their goal to improve accessibility, usability, and access to information globally…” The new Virtual Volunteer technology will […]

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Aille Fashion Brand

Aille (pronounced “eye”) is a company that works with the blind and visually impaired community to create clothing with braille messages that are fully legible and customizable.  Clothing designer, Alexa Jovanovic, is always looking out for how much disability inclusion is involved in clothing by fashion and clothing outlets.   Here’s more from the company’s website: […]

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Avaz FreeSpeech

Learning language and grammar skills can be challenging for anyone, but especially for individuals with special needs.  Fortunately, there are apps like Avaz FreeSpeech available to help out!  With FreeSpeech, you can explore how tenses, sentence forms, parts of speech, and other grammatical properties change the structure of English.  A neat feature of this app […]

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ATU618 – Puck with Barnabas Helmy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs. Special Guest: Barnabas Helmy – Inventor of Puck https://getpuck.com/ Bridging Apps: www.bridgingapps.org __________________________________________________________ We will host our annual Web […]