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HippoRemote Replaces Your Keyboard, Mouse, and Remote Control

By Guest Post on October 12, 2010

HippoRemote Replaces Your Keyboard, Mouse, and Remote Control

HippoRemote will connect to your computer and hand the reins over to you. Your iPhone is now a fully-featured multi-touch trackpad. Tap the keyboard button at the top of the screen and HippoRemote will provide you with a standard iPhone keyboard with some extra features attached. Explore further, and you will see that HippoRemote turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into an advanced media browser that lets you interact with some of the coolest media programs on your Mac

Posted in Dexterity Impaired, iPhone/iPod Touch/iTouch, Mac Computers, New Software, Overuse Injuries, Primary Mouse Users, Users | Tagged commercial, features, free, keyboard alternative, keyboard replacement, mouse alternative, mouse replacement, on screen keyboard, onscreen keyboard, unusual input devices | 3 Responses

Make Appliances and Controls Accessible with Digit-Eyes

By Guest Post on August 6, 2010

Make Appliances and Controls Accessible with Digit-Eyes

Digit-Eyes is an application that runs on the iPhone and which uses inexpensive off-the-shelf address labels and a standard inkjet or laser printer to enable iPhone users to make labels that are read aloud by their phone. It can also be used to read manufacturer’s UPC barcodes.

Posted in Information, iPhone/iPod Touch/iTouch, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged commercial, digit-eyes labels, digiteyes, digiteyes labels, digitize labels, free | 1 Response

Fluid – Create Site Specific Browsers

By Ricky Buchanan on May 8, 2010

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.

Posted in Intellectually Impaired, Neurologically Impaired, New Software, OS X, Other Impairment, Users | Tagged cognitive aid, free, freeware, memory aid | 3 Responses

Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles project

By Ricky Buchanan on January 22, 2010

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.

Posted in Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Information, Neurologically Impaired, OS X, Users | Tagged beginners, free, learning, productivity | 7 Responses

Voice4Me Basic AAC Program

By Ricky Buchanan on February 2, 2009

Voice4Me Basic AAC Program

Voice4Me is one of the free programs available at the SchoolFreeware website. It’s a very basic AAC program for users who have trouble speaking – users can click on a picture to speak the associated text, or type text into a box and then click on the ‘speak’ button.

Posted in AAC, Educators, New Software, OS X, Supporters, Text to Speech | Tagged AAC, alternative communication, assisted communication, augmentative communication, communication aid, complex communication needs, computer voice, free, non-verbal, speak text, speech synthesizer, text speak, Text to Speech, tts, voice output | 8 Responses

PHOTOsyms – Create Free Communication Boards

By Ricky Buchanan on December 3, 2008

PHOTOsyms – Create Free Communication Boards

Create simple communication boards using digital images with the free PHOTOsyms application. Your image grid can contain between 2 and 54 photos so within the grid limitations there’s quite a lot of room for customisation.

Posted in AAC, Educators, New Software, OS X, Supporters | Tagged AAC, assistive communication, communication boards, free | 5 Responses

Olearia DAISY book reader for Leopard

By Ricky Buchanan on October 31, 2008

Olearia DAISY book reader for Leopard

Yesterday marked the first public release of Olearia – a free and open source DAISY digital talking book player for Mac OS X. Olearia is still in beta release, but is fully compatible with VoiceOver and plays DAISY 2.02 and DAISY/NISO 2005 audio or text+audio talking books. Future versions will also play text-only DAISY books and many other features are planned.

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, Supporters, Text to Speech, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged audio books, DAISY, free, olearea, oleria, open source, talking books | 7 Responses

Mail Act-On – Organize your mail without leaving your keyboard

By Ricky Buchanan on September 5, 2008

Mail Act-On – Organize your mail without leaving your keyboard

Mail Act-On is a plugin for Apple’s Mail program which gives you the ability to assign a keystroke to almost any action that can be done with a mail message. It’s simple to configure and simple to use and free – couldn’t get any better than that!

Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged create keyboard shortcuts, free, keyboard shortcuts, mail | Leave a response

Concentrate better without screen clutter

By Ricky Buchanan on August 28, 2008

Concentrate better without screen clutter

Do you have problems with getting distracted by the other windows on your screen, but you don’t want to hide them completely from view? Isolater and Menu Eclipse might be just what you need.

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Supporters, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged ADD, ADHD, attention, block distraction, concentration, distraction, free | Leave a response

MindNode – Easy to use mindmapping tool

By Ricky Buchanan on August 25, 2008

MindNode – Easy to use mindmapping tool

Mindmaps are diagrams used to represent ideas – they use pictures, colours, position on the page and text together. MindNode is a free mindmapping application which is simple to use but does the job extremely well. It is fully keyboard accessible and the developer is interested to receive information about any access problems.

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Supporters, Users | Tagged cognitive map, concept map, free, mind maps, mindmapping, organizing, structuring thoughts | Leave a response

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