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Siri Shortcuts stands to be a boon for people living with disability

I watched the Apple WWDC presentation this morning and was excited to see the announcement of Shortcuts. Siri Shortcuts Streamline the things you do often with shortcuts. Siri can now intelligently pair your daily routines with third-party apps to suggest...

Published Mon, Jun 04 2018 8:20 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Input, Livers, Access, Design, Automation, Devices, Voice, Talking, mobile, apple, accessibility, Software, shortcuts, My life-tools, configuration, wwdc18, commands, siri, wwdc

Digital accessibility for digital teams: a role by role guide | Perkins Access

No matter your role, you can help your organization prioritize and implement digital accessibility. Digital accessibility makes good economic sense. People with disabilities, and their friends and families, spend $1.2 trillion a year. Clearly, they’re...

Published Fri, Nov 01 2019 5:07 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: ACCESSIBILITY NEWS

Petersons 42 Rules from Quora

Dr. Jordan Peterson’s 42 Rules for Life post, which was an answer to the question “What are the most valuable things everyone should know?” and were the origins to his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, was removed from Quora...

Published Fri, Aug 23 2019 2:08 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: PERSONAL, think, peterson, quotes, 42 rules, life, quora

Wheelchair hack for foot control

Alejandro who was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy which limits his ability to move. Rather than wait five years for a powered wheelchair, his father [Shea] took it upon himself to hack a wheelchair his son could control. He used a second hand adult...

Published Tue, Sep 10 2013 5:03 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: control, Living, Input, Movement, foot, hack, fplk, foot control, wheelchair, sma, scale

Commodity Environmental Control – The Smart Home and Accessibility | TechCrunch

Techcrunch feature an good article on the smart home and accessibility. For over thirty years I’ve been kludging ways to control what I can around me. There’s a whole field of rehabilitation technology centred around what’s termed “environmental...

Published Mon, Sep 08 2014 3:53 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Living, Thoughts, Access, Automation, ec, Devices, Suppliers, environmental control, smart house, smart home

App for deaf people to ‘hear’ group conversations

Smart, very smart use of technology to enhance lives. Researchers have developed the first mobile app to make group conversations possible between deaf people and their hearing peers. The Transcense app “listens” and interprets conversations, providing...

Published Mon, Nov 03 2014 6:28 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Living, Access, Communication, Connection, app, Software, deaf, Listening, indiegogo, hearing, transcence

Powered Nail Clipper

An easy-to-use, battery-operated nail clipper, which is perfect for those who have limited manual dexterity. via Coolest Gadgets Related posts: The Stick N Find Kind Reminder – for people with Alzheimer's Lifekludger Quick Links: Hand Stylus;...

Published Fri, Aug 16 2013 5:03 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Living, Livers, Devices, powered, clippers, gadget, nails

Art, religion, dreams and the nature of reality

01:58:10,800 –> 02:00:16,449 the gap between the finite and comprehensible and the infinite and uncomprehensible A… it’s like we live in the finite and comprehensible but we’re surrounded by the infinite and incomprehensible...

Published Mon, Jul 22 2019 1:44 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Connection, presence, key, PERSONAL, think, quotes, reality, poetry, art, religion, dreams

Captionfish: A captioned movies search engine

Stumbled across this service the other day. Lists captioned movies and TV shows as well as a search facility. You can customise results to shown within a certain area. Howeverer it only seems to be US-Centred currently. I’d really like to see this...

Published Tue, Oct 08 2013 2:39 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Livers, Access, captions, Software, deaf, online, tv, movies, US, service

Want a Lanyard for iPhone 3/4?

With the advent of the iPhone 5 and the “Lightning” connector, the Danglet style lanyard which clips in the large charging port, is now obselete. Until this year when the iPhone SE came out I used a lanyard from Danglet for my phones. A lanyard...

Published Fri, Aug 26 2016 9:18 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Living, Livers, Devices, Communication, iphone, Listening, danglet, lanyard, ipod

The MaKey MaKey configurable input system

It’s amazing how many times some creative, fun thing gets invented for basically ‘play’ that can be used in an alternate scenario for such real world benefit. Such it is with this MaKey MaKey system that allows anything to be an input...

Published Sat, Nov 24 2012 5:43 PM by lifekludger

Filed under: Lifekludger Links, Makers, Computing, Input, Touch, Typing, Movement, Playing, switching, play doh, controller, banana

Apple’s Voice Control in iOS13 is the real deal

A friend on Twitter asked my impressions on Voice Control. That prompted me to finally install iOS13 and give it a go. I am very enthused by the result. Voice Control acts just like most Apple products do – they do what they say and they show thought...

Published Thu, Sep 26 2019 3:51 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Living, lifekludger, Access, Voice, Talking, apple, app, Software, ACCESSIBILITY NEWS, tips, tool, device, ios13, voice control

Creating accessible modals and autocompletes Part 1 (Slideshare)

Slaying the Dragon Within us

An absolute must. Slaying the Dragon Within us on Youtube “Pay attention — or else.” Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 09 2019 2:00 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: presence, key, PERSONAL, think, conscience, dragons, Signal, brilliant

Special Stylus solutions by shapedad on Etsy

Shapedad is an outlet on Etsy that provides custom solutions for stylus’ for touch screens in many formats. Shapedad says: “It all started when the wife of a quad (quadriplegic) patient ordered a regular Stylus Socks stylus from our Etsy shop...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2015 1:40 AM by lifekludger

Filed under: Makers, Input, Touch, Access, touch barrier, Suppliers, stylus, mouthstick, etsy, custom

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