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March 25, 2019 ICT Accessibility / Technology Spotlight

Accessible Video Making with YouDescribe

YouDescribe makes it easy to ensure your video content is accessible to individuals who have a visual impairment. It’s also free and provides support!

March 11, 2019 Program Spotlights / Technology Spotlight

Double Robots Go for a Dress Rehearsal in Connecticut

The Connecticut Tech Act Project (CTTAP) is getting ready for its annual conference with help from two virtual-presence robots!

Partial Clips app screenshot shows image of echo dot with caption "speak while recording to add text" and app controls below including selections for camera, library, posters, flash, record button, camera direction, titles, and effects.

February 20, 2019 ICT Accessibility / Technology Spotlight

Accessible Video Making with Clips

Videos are powerful tools for raising assistive technology awareness, but only if they reach persons with hearing and visual impairments, too.

A hand holds the RinG-Pen with forefinger inserted through ring. Pen extends in either direction from the base of the forefinger.

February 15, 2019 Technology Spotlight

The Wonderful World of Adapted Pens

Recently I interviewed an AT Specialist and asked her for a favorite client success story. To my surprise, she immediately recalled providing an adapted pen to a man with ALS.

A large rectangular gaming controller with two large flat buttons and smaller additional buttons on the side. One edge is lined end to end in ports.

January 28, 2019 Technology Spotlight

Xbox for All

Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller came out in September and already it’s popping up in State AT Program device loan libraries. Ben Jacobs, Accommodations Specialist at GA Tools for Life, and a gamer since childhood, doesn’t mince words about the significance of this release.

A young man seated in a wheelchair with a robotic arm gesturing toward his cheek.

January 2, 2019 Program Spotlights / Technology Spotlight

A Unique Partnership Brings the Jaco II Robotic Arm to AzTAP

The Jaco II attaches to a power wheelchair and makes simple daily activities possible: holding a fork or glass, picking up something from the floor, getting a snack from the fridge, whatever a person needs and wants to do.