Podcast: Play in new window | Download Panelists: Brian Norton, Josh Anderson, Belva Smith, Tracy Castillo ATFAQ182 – Q1. Signing Legal Docs, Q2. Lever style door knobs, Q3. USB plugs and limited dexterity, Q4. Barcode scanner that reads aloud, Q5. Wildcard: AT certifications and licensing —– Transcript Starts Here —– Tracy Castillo: I have […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Monday Tech Tip: Avaz Communication App
During 2023 ATIA Conference, Narayanan Ramakrishnan, CEO at AVAZ inc. Showed us AVAZ, which is a picture based communication app. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about Avaz.