Category: Vision Impaired
For users with vision impairments who don’t use VoiceOver.
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Time-Independent Games
Most computer games get faster, relying on reflexes and coordination. Untimed games such as turn-based games rely on strategy and tactics instead, which makes them excellent if the user’s disability affects perception, thinking/memory, or movement.
Putting Bookshare.org Books On The iPad
Electronic books from Bookshare.org, especially textbooks, are invaluable for students who are blind or otherwise print impaired. The print impaired, however, can have trouble using these books on an iPad as there is little appropriate software. Here is a method for converting Bookshare books to the popular and widely supported ePub format so they can be read using Stanza or other ebook readers on the iPad as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Ellie’s iPad Provides New Opportunities
Before the iPad, Ellie couldn’t type and used her computer only to play BlackJack. Now she’s on Twitter, contributes to an app review site, and generally considers her Apple devices more useful than her shoes!
Stories: iPad Users With Disabilities
There have been a plethora of stories in the mainstream news and in blogs about the iPad and the amazing positive effects it’s having for people with various disabilities. Children with autism are the subject of many of these stories, but there are plenty of others who are getting amazing results from their iPads.
ReadHear DAISY Talking Book Player
This DAISY player includes text highlighting, not currently available in the free Olearia player and also reads more formats than Olearia can. The new features come at a steep price though.
Digit-Eyes uses iPhone + Printer to label things
Digit-Eyes uses your printer to print barcode labels which you can then associate with text or audio recordings. To read the labels back, you photograph the labels with your iPhone camera and then the iPhone will read the text or replay the audio for you.
Using Dvorak Keyboard Layouts In OS X Snow Leopard
Switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout doesn’t cost anything and can help you type more easily once you learn to use the layout. Here’s how to go about it using Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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.
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.
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