Posts with the INDATA project tag

Assistive Technology Update, Easter Seals Crossroads, INDATA News, Podcasts, Tech Tips, Wade Wingler

ATU046 – Taking Accessibility to the Mainstream (David Dikter – ATIA), Hunger Games and Universal Design for Learning, Apple’s iPad Textbooks Don’t Go Far Enough, Social Media and Disability, Hadley School for the Blind Podcasts

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download http://traffic.libsyn.com/atupdate/ATU041312.mp3 Links: Taking Accessibility Mainstream (David Dikter, ATIA) www.atia.org | http://bit.ly/HALqJ7 | http://bit.ly/HALrgk Americans Reading More Ebooks on Computers Than Ereaders, Phones [STUDY] http://on.mash.to/HAFO1B Apple’s iPad Textbook Initiative Doesn’t Go Far Enough | Daniel Rasmus | iPhone Life http://bit.ly/HAG80n Load Up Your iPad with a Massive Library of […]

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Friday Podcast: National Library Service, David Dikter, Adding accessibility to the mainstream, Hunger Games and Universal Design for Learning, Apple iPad’s textbooks don’t go far enough, social media and disability, Hadley School for the Blind Podcasts

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Information from the INDATA Project is now available via podcast! Every Friday, the INDATA Project will release two podcasts featuring new assistive technology projects. The podcasts are available for viewing on the INDATA Project website and on iTunes. The “Assistive Technology Update” is a fast-paced weekly update for AT professionals and enthusiasts. The “Accessibility Minute” is designed […]

Accessibility Minute, Easter Seals Crossroads, INDATA News, Podcasts, Tech Tips, Wade Wingler

AM046 – National Library Service

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Podcast: Play in new window | Downloadhttp://traffic.libsyn.com/accessibilityminute/AM041312.mp3 A weekly look at assistive technology–tools designed to assist people with vision, mobility, or hearing impairments. Produced by the INDATA Project at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana. www.loc.gov/nls

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Groovy glasses: Google to introduce augmented reality goggles

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In the recent past, people have become quite used to seeing people talk to themselves in the street. Watching individuals talking with their hands, shouting or having heated conversations with apparently no one have become the norm for those who use headphones, with microphones, attached to their mobile device. Hands free, it’s all the rage. […]

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Cochlear implants change the meaning of deaf

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A deaf diagnoses used to mean no other option. Hearing loss was permanent. Today, children who were born deaf, are now hearing adults thanks to a little device called the cochlear implant. Surgically implanted into the ears, cochlear implants take sound waves and transform them into electrical codes the brain can read. That code is […]

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Books without boundaries

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Currently, fewer than five percent of the books needed by people with print disabilities are available in digital text or in Braille text formats. One online library , Bookshare, has a mission to raise the level of access of reading materials for those who have print disabilities so that they too can have a wide […]