Category: AAC
For users of Augmentative and alternative communication, primarily about using your OS X machine as an AAC device.
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Assistiveware's Proloquo AAC Software Updated
AssistiveWare have released the Proloquo version 2.0, a major upgrade to their communications software for people whose disabilities prevent them from speaking or make speech difficult or unintelligible.
iPhone text accessibility plan for customers with disabilities
AT&T and Apple introduce new iPhone text accessibility plan (TAP) for customers with disabilities. This is a great step forward, but do they ever reject application for the TAP and would that leave users saddled with a contract for a plan they can’t use?
Making Communication Boards Using PowerPoint and Audacity
Lon Thornburg explains how to make your own communication boards using Audacity with PowerPoint or OpenOffice.
Assistive Gaming: LayoutKitchen Laboratory Series
LayoutKitchen – which now work’s with AssistiveWare’s SwichXS, Proloquo, and KeyStrokes – can be used to do some amazingly useful stuff. Here’s how to make an otherwise unplayable game playable for KeyStrokes users.
AAC Intervention: Ten Terrific Reasons to Use iTunes
This document talks about how iTunes can be helpful for teachers and carers supporting AAC users. The details of the document mostly refer to the Windows version of iTunes, but all the same things (and more) can be done on the Mac OS X version with slight tweaking.
Assistive Technology Really Makes A Difference: Dustin's Story
I saw a fantastic photo on One GirlFriday’s blog. When I asked her about it she said it was a bumper sticker that her brother Dustin had had attached to his wheelchair when he was in kindergarten over 20 years ago. He then had an Apple IIe, Unicorn board, Adaptive Firmware card.
Leopard: 17 Universal Access Features or more
Apple says there are 17 new features in Leopard for people with disabilities, but are there really many more?
Accessible iPod Remotes
RJ Cooper has just made available a large cordless iPod remote control which is already switch-adapted. He reports that will be also be releasing a scanning version in coming months.
New French voice for Mac OS X
Acapela Group and AssistiveWare have been busy – another voice for OS X less than 3 weeks after the release of Peter! This one is a female French speaking voice they are calling Alice.
New British voice for Mac OS X
Acapela Group and AssistiveWare have introduced a new British English text-to-speech voice available for Infovox iVox and the quality is simply amazing. I use the Infovox iVox voices with VisioVoice to help me access my computer, and prefer the British English voices rather than the American; they are easier for this Australian to understand. My [...]
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