Technology Taster Day at the V&A Dundee

So excited to be part of the V&A Dundee Technology Taster Day with our research group as a partner! Dundee AAC Research Group will demo again “Painting with your Eyes” and “Chat like Stephen Hawking” as seen before at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. And even more exciting: Becky Tyler will give a […]

Getting ready for AAATE

Finally all registered and booked for this year’s AAATE conference. Being an Assistive Technology conference, it’s good to see links to advice on making sure your presentation is accessible: Microsoft: Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities. Hope to see you at the conference, here a link to my abstract: Rolf Black, Annalu […]

Picking up on FLL again…

Trying to get back into the spirit after FLL in December… Came across this today: https://flic.kr/p/2cP1GRu

UserWay accessibility widget installed

I came across this excellent little widget for my website to help accessibility: userway.org UPDATE, August 2019: Just realised since I moved to the free WordPress.com site that I can’t install any widgets… so, apologies, will have to wait… Please give it a try and let me know how it works: It’s a wheelchair user button […]

Lego FLL: The new challenge is coming in August!

Take a look at some videos to prepare for the upcoming release of this season’s challenge: Hope you are enjoying your summer holidays!

LEGO Mindstorms EV3 on Wifi

When you want to try your program on your Lego Mindstorms robot, you need to download it onto the EV3 brick. This works fine with the USB cable or Bluetooth (I tried it with an iPad). However, if you want to use Wifi you will need a Wifi dongle, since this part of the electronics is not […]

Using your iPad as an accessible camera

We probably all have seen people using their iPad as a camera. With it’s huge screen (compared to a normal camera) it can make it easier to see what you would like to take a photo of. There a different ways to take photos with an iPad (or other iOs devices). For example, you tap […]

Single handed access to the iPad

Many of users with a disability have only one hand available to interact with their iPad, be it because of a stroke or another disability. Also it can be quite difficult to perform some of the gestures needed for the iPad using the working hand, e.g. the pinch gesture for zooming in and out of […]

ATBar to improve accessibility

I am trialling the ATBar from the University of Southampton. Click the ATBar button at the centre top of the page and a toolbar will appear with functions such as “Text-to-speak” to allow you to get the website text be read out to you. Take a look at the following link for an explanation of […]

Taking and sharing iPad screenshots with one finger…

Screenshots are a brilliant method to share information, especially for people with aphasia. However, the standard method to take a screen shot on an iPad requires some dexterity: you need to synchronise two button presses, using both hands – not necessarily and easy task. Skitch (on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/skitch/id490505997?mt=8) allows you to easily take a screenshot, […]