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When Microsoft launched Office 2007, the menu system was replaced by the ‘ribbon’ – groups of commands that run across the top of the window, with tabs organising them into common themes. It’s much more visual than the previous system and provoked very mixed responses, with some finding it much more intuitive but others, particularly [...]
Continue reading: Office 2010 Quick Tips – Customise the RibbonGuest post by E. Compatangelo, Technabling Ltd
Last week I presented the Portable Sign Language Translator (PSLT for short) to UK journalists during a series of press conferences held both in London and in Aberdeen, briefly demonstrating it with the help of our team.
The PSLT aims at bridging the current communication gap between people [...]
Continue reading: Portable Sign language Translator presented to the UK pressOne of the topics we get asked about a lot lately seems to be access to maths and related subjects, particularly accessible ways of handling mathematical notation for blind and visually impaired students. I am delighted to report that the ACCESSMSOR working group have produced a document which pulls together much of the current guidance [...]
Continue reading: Good Practice on Inclusive Curricula in the Mathematical SciencesOn Tuesday 20th March I attended one of the free online webinars from EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information). These webinars are almost always very useful, very well attended (mostly by folks from North America but with an increasing contingent from elsewhere) and presented in an interesting way. This session was no different.
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Continue reading: EASI assess the accessibility of Google AppsText to Speech is simply the conversion of text on the screen to synthetic speech which is read aloud to the user. It can be very useful for a range of users – for people with visual impairment, for those with dyslexia who find it easier to listen to a document than to read it, [...]
Continue reading: Office 2010 Quick Tips – Text to SpeechBack in the dark days of winter JISC TechDis proposed to ICCHP (The International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs: www.icchp.org) that we chair a Special Thematic Session at their forthcoming July 2012 conference in Linz, Austria. Linz is a charming city on the Danube, associated with philosopher [...]
Continue reading: Wittgenstein, Bruckner, Evelyn Glennie…..and JISC TechDis
