AT3 Center News & Tips

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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December 13, 2018 Technology Spotlight

The V.ALRT Personal Emergency Alert Device

Thanks to Tami Terns at North Dakota Assistive for this technology spotlight on an affordable emergency alert device for smartphone users.

Three interconnected images show the flow of Video-assisted S T S relay. 1) An S T S operator connected to: 2) an STS user (using laptop with webcam and mic), 3) Other Caller on a standard phone. The operator sees the STS user on his own desktop computer.

December 7, 2018 Technology Spotlight

Video-Assisted Speech-to-Speech Relay

15 states provide this little-known enhanced relay service. Could it assist you to make phone calls independently?

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December 3, 2018 Free AT Webinars from around the Web

Free AT Webinars in December

Free AT webinars from around the web, compiled by the Assistive Technology Coalition

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November 16, 2018 Toolkits

AT for Travel and Visiting

We reached out to readers for ideas to help make this season easier with assistive technology and received a range of gadget ideas and tips.

Dominion voting equipment with ballot printers.

November 9, 2018 AT Tips / for Voting

Barriers to the Ballot Box

Thanks to Laura Hall of the Michigan Assistive Technology Program for recounting her experience troubleshooting at the polls.

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November 5, 2018 Technology Spotlight

Speech Disability? Make Calls with Speech-to-Speech Relay

Bob Segalman founded exactly the service he needed. Now thousands of Americans make phone calls independently and many more need to know they can.

November 1, 2018 Free AT Webinars from around the Web

Free AT Webinars in November

Free AT webinars from around the web, compiled by the Assistive Technology Coalition