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…

KESI Format Automater

You have a big text book or a large exam or a bunch of documents you need to turn into Kurzweil files.  A lot of even advanced Kurzweil 3000 users or support staff don’t realize there is a great tool that automates a big part of this job, saving hours of watching over a  computer…

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…

Free Tulip Symbolized Story and Word Search

  For spring we wrote up a quick article in Widgit Online about Tulips.  I used a couple of non-symbol images for the story too. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the free pdf of our Widgit symbolized Tulips article with the word search. This time I the Widgit Online template to create a word search to teach the new…

Symbolized Oh Canada in Widgit Online

As with symbolizing, In Flanders Fields,  Oh Canada’s abstract language created some interesting challenges and conversations around the office when we set out to symbolize it in Widgit Online. [CLICK HERE to download the pdf] Specifically “native,” “command” and “guard,” made us think. “Native” generates a symbol of a first nations person (see the slideshow below for the images mentioned here).…