Category: Neurologically Impaired
Users with cognitive impairments not covered by other categories. This include specific learning disabilities, dyslexia, dyscalculia, autism, attention deficit disorder, non verbal learning disability, memory and concentration problems, and others.
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Autism, Apple, iPhone, MacBook & Life
Web designer Jamie Knight explains how he uses his iPhone and MacBook to help manage the difficulties that his autism causes. He talks about communication, organisation, and managing problem areas in his life.
PinPoint 3 – Never Lose Your Mouse Again
PinPoint 3 is a program which puts a great animated or static graphic around your mouse pointer when you want it, so you can always locate the cursor. Great for people whose eyesight isn’t the best, or who have large or multiple screens.
iPad Assistive Technology/Disability Round-Up
There have been a lot of articles on a lot of websites about accessibility and disability and assistive technology as they relate to the iPad since the specifications were first released. Now that people obtain the iPads to use themselves, the pace of articles is still increasing.
Fluid – Create Site Specific Browsers
Have you ever wished that you could have one copy of Safari for Facebook, and a different copy for your “serious” work? With Fluid, you can! Fluid is a nifty utility which lets you create site-specific web browsers (SSBs). These are web browsers which only work on one (or a few) specific websites. If you click on a link for any other website, it will open in your regular browser.
Ventrilo For Communication For The Chronically Ill
Ventrilo is a free speech-based chat server that you can set up on your home network so that people can communicate using speech between different computers in the same house. It doesn’t access the internet to work, so even if your net connection is broken Ventrilo will still work.
SpeakingFox: Tell Firefox To Talk
Firefox generally doesn’t let you use a lot of OS X’s accessibility features, including the services menu and some of OS X’s regular keyboard shortcuts. Setting your Mac up to speak highlighted text when you press a key also doesn’t work in Firefox. The Firefox extension SpeakingFox fills this gap with some nifty context menu options to fill this gap.
Fiddle-Proof iPod For An Autistic Child
How would you organise an iPod so an child with autism could listen to his favourite music during car journeys but not accidentally press the buttons and turn off the music? I thought of a couple of methods, and would love to hear about others you’ve come up with yourself!
Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles project
The Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles Project captions Apple’s tutorial vdeos in multiple languages, including English. They want to make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems.
Give Yourself Backups For Christmas
What would you do if you lost all your files because your computer’s hard drive failed? For less than $100 and with no technical knowledge you can have a backup of all the files on your computer, and you’ll never need to worry about hard drives failing and losing all your files.
Aid Accessibility With OS X Parental Controls
Parental Controls are a feature of OS X which are intended to help parents limit and monitor a child’s computer use. Due to their ability to simplify the computer’s interface they also have potential as an accessibility aid for cognitively impaired users.
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