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…

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…

Co:Writer iPad App now works in other Apps

Co:Writer iPad app already had unbeatable word prediction and topic dictionaries. With the new update, Co:Writer works in any other writing application on your iPad or iPhone  — Word, Google Docs, Pages, email, social network. Co:writer now works as its own on-screen keyboard. In this setting, the prediction options appear above the keyboard, typing into whatever writing app you’re using.…

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…

Bridges LIVE! Coming to a City Near You

We’ve just hadour first Bridges LIVE! event in Mississauga and it was a great success.  The enthusiasm of attendees, the discussions around trends in AT, new eye gaze technology and iPad access options, teaching strategies for students with profound challenges, tools on the cloud… as usual we probably learned as much from our participants as they…

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…

SymWriter in the Cloud!

SymWriter Online Canadian has been launched.   Another familiar piece of AT software has floated up and out to lofty internet heights; symbol supported word processing is in the cloud available through your web browser. Comparing SymWriter Online (SWO) with Communicate: SymWriter 2, the cloud version is not as feature rich as the  PC version (we’ll…

Co:Writer Universal is Here! Any Platform, Anytime, Everywhere

Co:Writer Universal for all platforms is now available at one easy subscription price: Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, iPad, at school, at home, for students, staff and everyone in your education community. Why Co:Writer, why now?  From the very beginning, Don Johnston incorporated proprietary algorithms into Co:Writer that didn’t just minimize spelling mistakes, but addressed the common writing…

K3000 — New Features for 2014

New features for K3000 including 11,000 + Widgit symbols. New lower unlimitted license price for colleges/universities. Special upgrade pricing available until the end of Sept. 2014.

Equals + AB Teachers = Awesome Resource for Special Needs Math

As part of an ongoing initiative, Numeracy for All — A Community of Practice, Alberta teachers are sharing their experiences with the Equals math curriculum for students with significant disabilities on a publicly readable Wiki. http://abnumeracyforall.wikispaces.com/home (Last year we wrote about the sister wiki that described the Literacy for All project in Alberta.) In 2012 – 2013 Alberta Education, in collaboration with Central Alberta Regional…