May
18/05/2009Contents for May
- Item on Amazon's Kindle ebook reader text to speech controversy
- Tips on how to customise your technology for your own use
- NVDA open source screen reader review
- Feedback from Digital Inclusion conference
- Events for your diary
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Links from May's podcast:
- www.twitter.com - Twitter is a microblogging site
- www.twitter.com/abilitynet - the AbilityNet Twitter channel
- www.accessibletwitter.com - an accessible alternative Twitter website
- www.readingrights.org - to sign a petition to get the Kindle ebook reader text to speech enabled
- www.qedltd.com - sell a range of switches
- www.sensorysoftware.com - free switch driver software
- www.oneswitch.org - has some free switch operable games
- www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/about/specialneeds/physical_cbeebies.shtml - also has some switch operable games to play
- www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/restop.htm - similarly has switch operable games In the start menu (Vista) or the run dialog type 'iexplore –k' followed by the url of the website to lock and the machine will limit access to that page without browser buttons.
- www.nvda-project.org - Free open source screen reader NVDA website
- www.abilitynet.org.uk/webopencourses - information on up-coming AbilityNet web accessibility courses
- www.linuxfoundation.org/en/accessibility - information on accessibility in Linux
- www.abilitynet.org.uk/myway - information on accessibility in Windows
- www.youtube.com/abilitynet - the AbilityNet YouTube channel which has over 50 video clips on accessibility
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