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The Stick N Find

StickNFind Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers…you can stick on your stuff, and use your smartphone to find them. The Virtual Leash enables you to set an alert for a specific distance. When a Stick-N-Find gets beyond your distance you...

Published Sun, Jan 06 2013 5:00 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Living, Livers, Monitoring

Magnets the TouchBarrier solution for capacitive screens?

Looking at this post re HTC and stylus patents, I'm going to start looking at a kludge for my mouthsticks using magnets. HTC has a solution ready for the market. They have patented an ordinary stylus but with a twist. The stylus has a magnetic head...

Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 7:06 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Input, Touch, stylus, touchbarrier, magnetic, magnet, patent, htc

Samsung brain-controlled tablet

Samsung+shows+off+brain-controlled+tablet [via link] – fplk Related posts: The future of brain-controlled devices – CNN.com Tablet PC – a Lifekludger view Robot arm makes my brain ping Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 27 2013 8:45 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Thought

Mum

For you Mum. Always. Vale Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 19 2019 11:18 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: PERSONAL

New Vision-Impaired User Interface – Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia has become the first airline in the Asia Pacific region, and the second airline in the world, to introduce an in-flight entertainment (IFE) user interface for passengers who are blind or have low vision. … The new interface increases...

Published Fri, May 26 2017 12:27 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Transport, environment, device, services, Virgin Australia, airline

Windows 10 free upgrade offer still on for AT users

Microsoft continues to support a free upgrade to Windows 10 for people who are using Assistive Technologies (AT) in Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, despite officially ending their promotional offer on 29 July 2016. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full...

Published Wed, Mar 29 2017 10:19 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: lifekludger, Access, Software, AT software, at, upgrade, free, Windows 10

iTouch iStick iKludge

Last year I captured this video, and has been on my youtube channel, yet seems I never posted it here. iTouch iStick iKludge From: lifekludger | August 10, 2009 The iTouch/iPhone needs [...] Related posts: The Touch Barrier – Testing the pogo...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 5:38 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Touch, Devices

Bad Practices on Birthdate Form Fields

Asking users for their birthdate on a form is complicated. Birthdates have formats that vary depending on the country and they consist of three separate data strings. It’s easy to confuse and frustrate users if the birthdate field doesn’t use simple controls...

Published Fri, Oct 05 2018 4:02 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Design, Web, ACCESSIBILITY NEWS, tips, birthdate, forms

WebAIM: The WebAIM Million – An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages

Introduction In February 2019, WebAIM conducted an evaluation of the home pages for the top 1,000,000 web sites using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology parameters). While this research focuses only on automatically...

Published Sat, Mar 16 2019 9:13 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Web, ACCESSIBILITY NEWS, webaim, analysis

Mobile Apps Like Uber and Airbnb Raise Novel ADA Title III Issues

Are online-only businesses like Uber and Airbnb covered by Title III of the ADA, and what would coverage mean when the businesses don’t own or operate the vehicles or accommodations that customers use? … Title III of the ADA only applies to owners...

Published Sat, Jun 18 2016 1:30 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Transport, environment, uber, airbnb, ada

Boom arm workstation

Neat boom arm that might be very helpful : Extremely adjustable for position, angle, height: Boom arm is Angle adjustable. Boom Arm is Length adjustable. Base is height adjustable. Platform is angle adjustable side to side, front to back. [via] easychairworkstation...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 10:30 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Access, stand, arm, boom

Modded xbox controller

An excellent example of the life enhancing benefits of life kludging. Randy “N0M4D” Fitzgerald, is a tournament gamer born with a rare muscle & joint disability called Arthrogryposis and uses a custom modded x-box controller. From FlatLine via TechBlog...

Published Sat, Mar 27 2010 8:06 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Livers, Devices, Playing, game, gamer, game controller, x-box, xbox

Recognition of Lifekludger’s stickytape love

My iStick / iKludge experimenting got a shoutout in a recent presentation at the Science Museum in the UK. And the subject was …. “Stickytape“! Katrina Jungnickel has the full slides and story over on her making cultures blog. Share...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2010 10:24 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Makers, stickytape

Live Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Using Moverio

Live translating using a microphone, a smartphone running Google Translate, and Epson Moverio Epson’s Moverio is a pair of glasses with Wi-Fi controlled by a wired touch remote running on Android. With a little experimentation and development it could...

Published Sun, Jan 13 2013 5:00 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Living, Livers, Access, Communication

Solid Vs. Outline Icons: Which Are Faster to Recognize?

When building a mobile app, there comes a time when you have to decide whether to use solid or outline icons. Which style is better for user experience? Some think the difference between them is just a matter of preference, but research shows there’s...

Published Sat, Feb 23 2019 2:01 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: ACCESSIBILITY NEWS, tips

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