AM079 – Touch Screens

Podcast: Play in new window | Download   Show Notes Hi folks. Welcome to “Accessibility Minute”, your weekly look at Assisitive Technology—those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs. For many years, a small number of businesses and people have relied on touch […]

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SMART Specs

SMART specs presents hi-tech glasses that are designed to prevent “legally blind” individuals with a small degree of residual vision from bumping into objects. The glasses use small stereo cameras in the frames that project simplified images onto the lenses which become brighter the closer you become to the object. This can help alert individuals […]

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Cushion Game Controllers

Ard Jacobs, graduate student at Eindhoven University of Technology in Amsterdam, has invented a new way to play video games with unique game controllers. Jacobs has designed and created two cushions that are aimed to help children with autism communicate, or those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), to calm down and focus. As […]

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Indiana Accessibility Partnership Projects

The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FCHHI) announced earlier this spring their current project to help increase accessibility. The FCHHI partnered with Rebuilding Together Indianapolis, Back Home in Indiana Alliance, Servants at Work, CICOA, Easter Seals Crossroads, and accessABILITY. This past year the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) awarded the FHCCI $100,000 in private […]

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Monday Tech Tip: Google Search for iOS

Ron King, an Assistive Technology Specialist at Easter Seals Crossroads, explains and demonstrates the uses of Google Search for iOS created by Google. Having trouble viewing the video- click here.  Click here to visit our archived videos.  

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