NEW: Kurzweil 3000 Chrome App and Extension

NEW: Kurzweil 3000 Chrome App and Extension Kurzweil has totally redesigned its web reading tools and released a Chrome app, too: Read the Web 3.0 extension for Chrome web browser and Kurzweil 3000 Chrome App.  Both are available as a free download for Kurzweil 3000+fireflyweb license subscribers. They deliver not only better functionality for any…

NEW: Extract highlights, Write and more in K3000+FIREFLY!

NEW: Extract highlights, Write and more in K3000+FIREFLY! The web version of FIREFLY  serves up new reading and writing features, including extraction of highlights and notes and writing documents with dictionary and word prediction supports. . Read More

Bridges new website is LIVE!

Bridges has a brand new website that makes searching for, learning about, and purchasing Assistive Technology easier than ever. To celebrate we’re having a launch sale.  All-Turn-It Spinner, Don Johnston Switch Interface, Connection in the Workplace and other curricula, Jelly Bean Switch and more! We’ll be adding more items, so be sure to sign up for…

Cloud Privacy: When the Extension’s Servers are Breached

It’s not enough to say your server in the Cloud is secure.  When a company or organization says their data is secure, assume that’s on a spectrum, rather than an absolute stating of fact. Just look at this Top 10 list from Digital Guardian of websites that have been hacked in 2015 (https://digitalguardian.com/blog/top-10-biggest-data-breaches-2015 ):  from…

Cloud Privacy: How is your extension paying for its development?

You don’t get something for nothing…. There’s no such thing as a free lunch… everybody’s got to eat… Home truths, that could be extended (pun intended) to extensions. Developers of extensions are no different than the rest of us — they don’t generally work for free. The one’s that do (and again we’ve been down this road…

Cloud Privacy: Can you turn your Extensions Off?

For most extensions, it is a safe bet that they are always working.  Even though you are not actually accessing their functionality, they are still doing their work. For an extension to deliver that almost instant responsiveness that makes you forget the work is being done on a server, thousands of kilometres away, most extensions work…

Chrome extensions and Privacy — Questions to Ask

Extensions are a key reason why the Chrome web browser has become the world’s favourite, and a conduit for Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and Chromebooks into schools.  Educators, consultants and AT specialists are trading favourite extensions with a gusto that we witnessed with iPad apps, just a few years ago. But whether it’s free or a…

New accessibility supports in Chrome OS include Screen Reader & Dwell Click

On December 10th, Google dramatically improved the accessibility options in the Chromebook operating system, (Chrome OS) settings.  Added were a screen reader and improvements for access with a touch screen and pointing devices. Visual supports Visual supports in the Chromebook include a large mouse cursor setting, high contrast mode and a screen magnifier.  You can even connect…

Symbolized Winter Rules and Vocab

Apart from Calgary, (where I hear they have flurries) not a lot of Canada is getting the sort of winter weather we usually expect by this time of year.  Nonetheless, you know it will come eventually. And when it does our 4 Winter Rules for a playground and accompanying vocab sheet that we created with Widgit Online, (the web…

In Flanders Fields – Symbolized! Tips, tricks and discoveries for using symbols for teaching a poem

To mark Remembrance Day we’re sharing a symbolized version of the classic poem “In Flanders Fields” by Canadian John McCrae with symbolized vocabulary cards, all created with the new Widgit Online.  Widgit Online is the new cloud based symbol material maker for Windows, Chrome, Mac and shares to all of the above and iPads and other tablets…