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Using your mouse or keyboard with less pain and effort
World Arthritis Day is on October 12th 2022. Arthritis Australia reports that 1 in 7 Australians live with arthritis.…
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Headmouses
Headmouses can allow people with limited or difficult hand movements to control their devices by movements of their head. This type of assistive technology has been around for many years and can enable a person to access their computer independently.
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Dyslexia Part 2 – Reader friendly emails
How to make emails more readable for people with difficulties reading or processing text. Applying a universal design approach, tips for increased readability would help everyone with taming their inbox.
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Coming Soon (November) Kindle Scribe
The new Kindle Scribe will be released by Amazon in November 2022 and it will feature the ability to take notes, setup to-do lists and planners, review PDF or Word documents.
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Dyslexia Awareness Week 2022
October 3rd to 7th, and in some parts of the world, the entire month is an opportunity to highlight and reflect on the barriers and breakthroughs for people living with dyslexia and associated learning differences.
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Getting PODD to trial on an iPad
PODD is a very popular AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) system. It has been around for decades in…
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Top 3 Youtube channels for AT – August 2022
We love Youtube for the free content you can access so easily to learn more about communication and…
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Make a 3D-printed keyguard
For anyone that learns more effectively from being shown how on a video (as opposed to reading a…
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Making electronics accessible
This link was shared on our National AT listserv and is just too good not to share further!…
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Learn about Voice Control free on Youtube
We found this UK-based tech YouTuber a while ago when searching for scripting tutorials for Dragon Professionals. He's…