by Mike Chaussee | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
A while back, I was working with a family looking to remodel the bathroom/laundry area they had earlier created for their mother by converting an existing garage. Sadly, as her arthritis worsened, she could no longer manage the 2 steps with an over-sized rise...
by Mike Chaussee | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
February is recognized as low vision awareness month. One of the comments that I routinely hear from individuals with low vision is that they want to be able to read. In the process of determining assistive technology for the purpose of reading we start with low tech...
by Jeannie Krull | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
An Android or Apple mobile device with a communication app for people who have difficulty speaking, such as an iPad with Proloquo2Go, is not a new concept anymore. However, insurance paying for a mobile device with this type of software is not as commonplace. A...
by Mike Chaussee | Feb 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
A little over two years ago IPAT was contacted by a young man looking for assistance in funding a custom built controller he could use to play video games on his PlayStation. He’d already learned enough about accessible gaming to know that Broadened Horizons, Inc. and...
by Jeannie Krull | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last December, I reported on a few text-to-speech (TTS) apps with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Apple (iOS) mobile devices. On the Android side of the planet, there is an app called CapturaTalk from Iansyst Ltd, whose main feature includes TTS with OCR....
