Chrome can now caption audio and video
By: Emily Scharff, Product Manager, Chrome & Chrome OS Accessibility and Madan Kompalli Product Manager, Speech Captions make online content...
Assistive technology
Starbucks launches technology to make stores more accessible to visually impaired
By Marianne Wilson Starbucks Corp. is partnering with a technology company to make it easier for customers with vision problems to...
Resources for free and low cost communication boards, picture symbols and visuals for adults
Thanks to “Say It With Symbols” for these resources. Check out their website at Find free Adult Picture Communication Boards,...
Face Tracking and Eye Gaze for the iPhone and iPad: Access and AAC
By: Kathryn Helland For the AAC Community At long last, apps are available that take advantage of Apple’s True Depth camera to...
Visual and Audio Cookbooks
Cooking is a fun and practical activity for everyone and an opportunity to not only increase independence, but also to...
Look to Speak uses eye-gazing technology to let people select pre-written phrases to be spoken aloud.
By Aimee Chanthadavong Reprint from ZDNet: Innovation Google, together with speech and language therapist Richard Cave, has developed an experimental...
Welcome to the Smart World!
Peter Fretty Welcome to the Smart World! | IndustryWeek Innovation is often the result of a passion. For brothers Barry...
Thanks to Voiceitt-Amazon collab: “Hey Alexa” sounds the same no matter your voice
By Dor Schwartz reprint from Geektime The Israeli firm targets inclusion and independence through technology, now powering Alexa with speech...
The Little Things Teachers Do Every Day Are Actually Big Things: How to Retain Them During Virtual Learning
By LauraMarie Coleman (@Teach2Abilities) As a special education teacher and a mom of two middle-schoolers with dyslexia, I am feeling like...
How Hybrid Learning Is (and Is Not) Working During COVID-19: 6 Case Studies
By Mark Lieberman for Education Week Most U.S. school districts are currently using “hybrid learning”-a mix of in-person and online instruction....
LEGO BRAILLE BRICKS FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT LAUNCHED IN SEVEN COUNTRIES
By VENKAT for The Assistive Technology Blog Remember the Braille Bricks project Lego piloted last year? Those Braille Bricks have finally officially...
ATECH’s AT ACADEMY© Workshop with national trainer, Mike Marotta!
The AT Academy© Workshop, designed by Mike Marotta in collaboration with The Assistive Technology Training Center of CT (ATECH) and MidState Arc,...
The 5 Coolest Gadgets for Assistive Technology in 2020
Reprint from Motobility Firstly, what is assistive technology? Assistive Technology is any device or piece of technology, being large or...
Can You See Me Now? An Update on the Great Mask Dilemma
Reprint from AT3 Center News & Tips Finding a readily-available solution to communicating while d/Deaf during the pandemic is proving...
Despite School Closures, Switch User Doesn’t Miss a Beat!
Posted by Eliza J. Anderson for AT3 Center News & Tips When school buildings closed in mid-March due to COVID-19, I...
