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: 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…

6 + 1 Super Cool AT stories from 2016 ATIA conference

This year’s  Assistive Technology Industry Association’s conference in Orlando turned out to be a really exciting few days.  We got to attend sessions, meet with our manufacturing partners and prowl the massive exhibit hall hunting for cool stuff. This year, the weather was unseasonably hot outside (peaking at 27C.  Most years, the weather is more…

Top 8 Chromebook Simple Switch Activity Sites

[Over the summer an assistive technology specialist at a school-board that’s gone Chromebooks wrote to us,  “What do I do with these things?” This is part 2 of our series on the options for the Chromebook in a special needs setting. ] Now that you’ve got your switch talking to your computer (see the previous article Chromebooks and Switch…

Kurzweil web subscription/firefly adds Google Drive supports and more

Kurzweil 3000 firefly, the reading tool that comes with the web licence subscription version of K3000, has now added direct access to Google Drive. One click gets you direct access to documents saved in Google Drive.  A great feature for the many  schools and school districts who have implemented Google Apps for Education (GAFE) or…

2015 TRENDS — WEB 2.0 – ENDANGERED SPECIES?

Whatever happened to web 2.0? A few years ago (2006-10ish) we saw a lot of desktop computer functionality get imitated by web-browser based tools, a lot of them for free.  For awhile it seemed like you do almost anything on the computer for free if you just got the Google search term right – voice…

2014 AT trends: Cheap, Disposable — Accessible?

This is the first of three posts about trends we see effecting AT in the coming months written by Bogdan Pospielovsky  Business Development Manager at Bridges. Coming up: Chromebooks and iPads, the Internet of things, eye-gaze in the classroom, the return of Word Prediction, AT legacy and the new platforms. What trends have we missed?…

firefly By Kurzweil Goes Live!

Some of you have had a chance to try out the new web delivered Kurzweil reading tool, firefly.  Well now it’s gone prime time and is officially released. All new V.13 web network licensees can now use their username and password to get access to Firefly; you’ve been automatically registered. You can also register and…

More Webinars for 2012

Bridges is scheduling a full slate of new webinars for 2012. For the new year we’re adding two more to our regular slate: Communicate: SymWriter – Write with Symbols and more! educATe – Web delivered AT support Service Repeating again : Equals – Age-Neutral Math Curricula for Students with Special Needs: Symbolize IT with Communicate…