AT3 Center News & Tips

November 13, 2019 AT maker movement / Toolkits

Hack a Toy for the Holidays (Yes You Can)

Adapt a battery-powered toy for a special child in your life. Here’s how to get started with choosing and hacking toys to be switch accessible.

A little girl holding an adapted toy animal presses a CD switch to activate it while her mother looks on smiling.

November 6, 2019 AT maker movement / Events / Program Spotlights

Another Kind of Santa’s Workshop

The South Carolina AT Program is getting ready to bring smiles to families and children with disabilities, one switch-adapted toy at a time!

Young boy with hands over face in shame.

October 15, 2019 AT Tips / for Employment

AT Etiquette Tips (and Regrets)

Most of these tips correlate to one overarching principle: assistive technology as an extension of a person’s personal space, perhaps best understood as an extension of their body.

Satellite image of Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico

August 30, 2017 Emergency Preparedness / Program Spotlights

Hurricane Harvey Relief Update: State AT Programs Stand Ready

As Hurricane Harvey inflicts unprecedented damage on Texas and Louisiana, the national network of State Assistive Technology Programs stands on alert to help individuals with disabilities obtain the durable medical equipment (DME) and AT they need.

A woman behind a table that displays tablets mounted in different ways, including Loc-Line with a clamp, holds and points to a smart phone.

August 11, 2017 AT maker movement / Program Spotlights

Therese Willkomm’s AT Maker Wisdom

Glue guns? Outdated. Soldering? Often unnecessary. If AT makers are “disrupters” to the AT industry, Therese Willkomm is also the disrupter to your AT making

Webinar. Shows thought bubbles with tech icons.

August 2, 2017 Webinars

Free AT Webinars in August

Free AT webinars from around the web, compiled by the Accessible Technology Coalition. Usually a quiet month, this August has 11 free webinars!

Man wearing protective eye-wear works with tools intently.

July 27, 2017 AT maker movement / Program Spotlights

LipSync Buildathon adds Cutting-edge Device to PIAT Lending Library!

NextFab members and others assembled devices called LipSyncs: innovative, open-source, sip-and-puff joysticks developed by the Neil Squire Society and funded by the Google Foundation.

Screenshot of Seeing AI app from Microsoft video. Shows mobile phone with smiling woman and caption that reads "Jenny near, top right, three feet away." Buttons on screen read: Short text, Document, Product, and Person. Person is selected.

July 25, 2017 Emerging Tech

New App Describes Visual World

Thanks to John Brandt at MaineCITE for this post on Microsoft’s Seeing AI app for persons with visual impairments. The app is free and part of an ongoing research effort.

Tips for Employment: shows two women behind a desk using assistive technology, one in a wheelchair

July 20, 2017 AT Tips / for Employment

Fine Motor Impairments

Thanks to Oklahoma ABLE Tech for this AT Tip for Employment! AT Tips are posted as an adaptable resource for state programs and may be localized and shared.

Battery-powered toy with tools and wires.

July 13, 2017 AT maker movement / Program Spotlights

AT and the Geek Golden Age

The Assistive Technology (AT) Maker Movement has arrived! How might we use it? …