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How Do You Use Assistive Technology?

February 22, 2023 | Leave a Comment

by Kathy Austin

  When I was going to college back in the 90s and early 2000s, a textbook consisted of a cardboard box with dozens of four-track cassette tapes.  I played them on a special tape recorder that I now cannot remember the name of. It was about the size of a textbook, but heavy in my […] Read More »

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Chef Jim in his white jacket and chef hat

Time to Get Cooking!

November 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

by David Flament, Manager of Adaptive Technology

Here’s an exciting new app from Conversant Labs called Yes Chef – just in time for holiday cooking!  Yes Chef is an easy way to find and follow recipes.  Much like this developer’s Say Shopping app, Yes Chef is an app that you talk to and it talks back to you, no typing or swiping […] Read More »

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Shawn travels in Chicago using BlindSquare on his iPhone

BlindSquare: A Wonderful Mobility Aid

September 1, 2016 | Leave a Comment

by Shawn Sturges

As we lose our sight to various conditions, often times the fear of a lack of independence begins to creep into our minds.  I have experienced this many times, but with time and adaptive technology, that fear has slowly dissipated. Over the years I have used various technologies to help out with my mobility and […] Read More »

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Facebook App on an iPhone

My Five Favorite Apps

April 6, 2016 | Leave a Comment

by Shawn Sturges

Today as smart phone users, we have access to many apps that can be quite useful in our everyday lives.  Over the past several years, I have explored many apps – some have been useful and others not so much.  I have run into an overwhelming amount of apps that have not been completely accessible.  […] Read More »

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David using VoiceOver gestures on his iPhone

Be More Productive with New Workflow App

April 6, 2015 | Leave a Comment

by David Flament

I recently found an app that reminds me of my days way back when I was a computer programmer. I had learned to program like everyone else back in the late eighties and early nineties by writing lines and lines of code to make the computer do what we wanted it to do. Then, in […] Read More »

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