For a long time computers can have been able to read aloud text on web pages, documents, PDFs and even scanned images. The computer voices […]
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A small team based in Nottingham, UK, have created an award-winning system to help people with dementia to live better lives. The Bendigo System involves […]
Pokemon GO is a popular free augmented reality app for iPhones and Android (including Samsung) devices. To play it you need to leave your […]
Speechless is a new TV comedy series due to air on the 21st September 2016. It features a family of five including a mum who fights […]
For a few years Google Now and Siri have enabled iPhone, Samsung and other Android users to make calls, send messages and ask questions using voice alone. It’s […]
The Bragi Dash is a set of $299 earphones that can play audio and intelligently process and filter the sounds around you. Fundamentally they […]
Last summer I shared a short video about Project Soli, an advanced Google Project that uses a tiny radar to detect and recognise small movements. The […]
In January 2012 Intel announced they were looking into improving the efficiency of Stephen Hawking’s access to his communication aid. At the time, an infrared […]
I work with a number of people who benefit from the Micro Light switch to access computers, phones and tablets. The switch is suitable […]
This fun app takes children through a series of activities to help them learn about shapes and colours. It can easily be used for […]
The Inference Group at Cambridge University originally intended to create a method of entering text into PDAs and other mobile devices. The result, however, […]
WordQ offers help when writing documents by providing word prompts and sentence-by-sentence proofreading. When bundled with SpeakQ it also allows individual words to be […]
As of April 2013 people will be able to buy, albeit quite expensively, a mobile phone that is accessible partly using eye control. This is similar […]
Hi all! I just returned from a productive visit to BETT in its new home at the Excel centre in London docklands. This year I […]
I recently upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8. It was a smooth process and everything on my Lenovo T410 laptop is working well. […]
I recently stumbled across a new set of text-to-speech voices produced by CereProc in Edinburgh. They have a fantastic collection of realistic voices covering […]
A university student who I met through a DSA assessment recently got in touch to say that she was having difficulties reading PDF documents […]
On Friday I went to my first Disabled Students’ Allowance Workshop day at Assistive Solutions in Dalston. First of all a big ‘Thank You’ […]
It’s easy to see how technology can help people with physical or sensory disabilities but today I heard a wonderful story of how the […]
Here’s a thing. Samsung have brought out a semi-ruggerised netbook and are showing it off at BETT (Stand M45). Samsung netbooks are widely known […]
Well the title says it all, doesn’t it? No? Ok a little explanation: I’ve been experimenting with a friendly RFID reader called mir:ror and […]
Perhaps a little late in posting this but CENMAC/Charlton School are having a drop-in day with well-known exhibitors and some interesting free seminars. From […]
Great news for visually impaired computer users. The basic Windows Magnifier utility that has been knocking around since Windows 95 has finally been ditched […]
I’ve spent part of today making this video demonstrating the new features of the Windows 7 on-screen keyboard. Try to ignore the mystery mouse […]