Color Enhancer: Chrome extension helps those with color blindness

Color blindness is a real condition affecting up to 300 million people worldwide.  It can create difficulties in daily life when discerning color is important (e.g. reading charts, etc.)  Fortunately, Google Chrome offers an extension called Color Enhancer to help these individuals better view the internet. The Google Accessibility team developed Color Enhancer for those […]

Ava: Enjoy 24/7 accessible conversations

Many individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing often have to rely on lip reading or an interpreter to engage in conversations.  This is where Ava may prove useful.  Ava is an app noted to be the “first smart captioner for conversations based on machine intelligence.”  In other words, it’s an app that allows users to […]

Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator

Graphing calculators are often a necessity in secondary and higher education classrooms.  For individuals who are visually impaired, standard ones are wholly inaccessible.  The Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator is the world’s first fully accessible handheld graphing calculator. The Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator includes the same functions as the TI-84 Plus.  However, […]

Wheelchair Blankets

There are few things I despise more than cold, wintry weather; between getting stuck in the snow and my legs turning purple from extreme temperatures, the idea of winter is anything but fun to me.  Since I’m unable to hibernate until spring (sigh), I’ve looked for products to make my going out in winter a little […]

National Cristina Foundation Connects Nonprofits with Technology

When the National Cristina Foundation was established three decades ago, nobody had yet come up with the term “digital divide.” But that’s what their mission has been for more than 30 years: to connect nonprofit groups with technology needs to donors of reusable hardware so the disadvantaged can have access to computers, mobile devices and […]

4 Grocery Delivery Services

It’s nothing out of the ordinary for individuals to stop by a grocery store at least once a week.  If they need eggs, milk, or bread, they can simply drive to the local drugstore on their way home from work.  For the more extensive list of groceries, they’ll simply grab a cart and peruse every […]