One more (I can’t resist) step toward full body interfaces. Great idea for many reasons and situations and as an alternative to keyboards, mouse, joystick, etc. MojoKid writes “When it comes to controlling your favorite PC title, you’ve got a few options. There’s a mouse. There’s a keyboard. There’s a control pad and the joystick. [...]
Technology should provide ways to make our lives easier. I believe that if we can help level the playing field and reduce the amount of time people have to come up with workarounds, then we are moving in the right direction.
I am creating several RSS, social network and Twitter feeds for Achieve Kids. I thought this was a particularly interesting result. I funneled it through Yahoo Pipes, which I am finding to be particularly useful when merging several search parameters into one feed. {“pipe_id”:”8kj1ac453hGX5d4C3rVd_w”,”_btype”:”list”}
I will be assessing the technology needs of some schools in the Bay Area in upcoming weeks and was doing some online research regarding Assistive Technology in schools and best practices for advising administrators on purchases, training and I.E.P. funding for technology. This article does a great job of outlining what to keep in mind [...]
508 accessibility is now starting to be taken quite seriously…and legally. The internet is very young in the big scheme of things, but I hope that it will not take a hundred years before it is equally usable and utilized by everyone. Our society is richer, wiser and more interesting now that we are embracing [...]
