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Tag Archives: mobility
Steve Jobs, Apple, Accessibility, and other Thoughts
Because of Steve Jobs and Apple’s committment to universal accessibility, people who are blind, deaf, or mobility impaired can use Apple’s products with ease. There’s long font, VoiceOver, color contrast, Dragon Dictation, and many more accessibility features to choose from. The iPhone 4s and iOS5 will bring even more cool accessibility features and much needed [...]
Accessibility, Disability, Uncategorized
Also tagged Amazon, Apple, blind, deaf, iPad, iPhone, steve jobs, voiceover
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Kindle Games Accessibility
I am currently writing a lot of game reviews for the Kindle game blog: www.kindle-apps.net. It is run by the same person who runs the other blog I’ve been writing for for about a year: BlogKindle.com. I’ve heard from blind friends that the Kindle is not very accessible at all in general. Would you agree? [...]
Disney Accessibility Features
The summer is a great time to head to theme parks. Disney has a lot of great options for people with hearing, vision, and mobility impairments. They offer captioning, wheelchairs, sign language, audio descriptions and more. I am particularly excited that they have assistive listening devices. Here is the website. It explains what services they [...]
Kindle Accessory for People with Mobility Impairments
I wrote a post on BlogKindle about a cool new assistive device that allows people with paralysis or other muscle disorders use the Kindle. The accessory was created by Origin Instruments, the creator of Proloquo2Go, a communication aid for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. I’m not going to rewrite the post on here, but [...]
Assistive Technology
Also tagged communication, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, origin instruments, PageBot, Proloquo2Go
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ACCESS North Carolina
If you are looking to travel to any of the museums, parks, trails, or aquariums in North Carolina, ACCESS North Carolina is an excellent resource on what is accessible. The last edition was published in 2007, but there will be a new edition out later this year. The 2011 edition will include more on accessibility [...]
Adaptive Skiing
Last week, Holly posted about adaptive skiing and I am going to continue that discussion. One of the most popular places to ski is Aspen, Colorado. Aspen is currently the home of “Challenge Aspen,” which is an organization that provides adaptive skiing for those with physical disabilities. Challenge Aspen was started by Houston Cowan and [...]
Adaptive Sports, Disability, Uncategorized
Also tagged aspen, blind, challenge aspen, colorado, ski, skiing
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Verbally: an Awesome Free App for the iPad
After learning about all of these cool new apps for the iPad that can assist people with disabilities, it makes me really want one just so I can try them out. Verbally is a communication aid created by Intuary for people with cerbral palsy, traumatic brain injury, ALS and other speech inhibiting condition. This is [...]
Assistive Technology, Disability
Also tagged ALS, app, Cerebral Palsy, communication, Intuary, iPad, traumatic brain injury, verbally
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