---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Andrew Leibs - About.com Assistive Technology" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:09:46 -0500 Subject: About Assistive Technology: MBraille & BIG Launcher Mobile Apps To: [email protected]
What You Need To Know About Assistive Technology >From Andrew Leibs, your Editor and Guide --------------------------- EDITOR'S NOTE ---------------------------- Mobile phones have long been popular among the blind & visually impaired. Apps make them increasingly accessible. This week, we look at 2: MBraille, which provides a virtual onscreen braille keyboard on iOS devices, and BIG Launcher, a large-type Android interface designed with seniors in mind. <p> </p> http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdc ------------------------- IN THE SPOTLIGHT --------------------------- MBraille Puts Braille Keyboard on an iOS Screen MBraille is an iOS app that creates an onscreen keyboard enabling blind users to tweet, send text messages, and navigate their device using contracted or uncontracted English braille. <p> </p> http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdT Big Launcher Large Print Interface for Android Devices Big Launcher is a large print screen layout that replaces the default interface on Android phones. It's designed for seniors and people with low vision to make mobile devices easier to see and use. <p> </p> http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdU ABC Assistive Technology Fund for the Blind The Association of Blind Citizens (ABC) maintains a fund to help qualified persons who are blind or visually impaired purchase adaptive equipment, including accessibility software, digital audiobook players, and desktop video magnifiers. ABC pays for one half of the retail price to grantees. <p> </p> http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdV ---------------------------- MORE TOPICS ----------------------------- Dictate Your First Dragon Document on Mac GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdW Technology for Deaf College Students GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdX Amigo CCTV' Has Unfriendly Price GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdY Institute on Disability at the Univ of New Hampshire GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdZ Enhanced Vision Battery Powered Portable Monitor GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQd%5B Zoomax Snow 7 HD Portable Video Magnifier GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQd%5D Tobii PCEye Go Eye Tracker GuideSite http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQda ------------------------ Run Your First 5K --------------------------- Run Your First 5K Even couch potatoes can be ready for a 5K with just a couple months of training.<a href="http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdi&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fclk.about.com%2F%3Fzi%3D1%2F1%5DM%26zu%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Frunning.about.com%2Fod%2Fracetraining%2Fa%2Ffirst5K.htm%26nl%3D1";> Read more...></a><br><br> http://glclk.about.com/?zi=5/MQdi --------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS ---------------------------- More Newsletters: To sign up for more free newsletters on What You Need to Know About your favorite topics, visit: http://clk.about.com/?zi=4/XR You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Assistive Technology as '[email protected]'. If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, please visit: http://about.com/nl/usgs.htm?nl=assistivetechnology&[email protected] About respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy: http://about.com/gi/pages/privacy.htm Our Contact Information: http://ourstory.about.com/contact.htm 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 copyright 2013 About, Inc. Thanks for being a subscriber to the About Assistive Technology Newsletter. To Advertise in this newsletter, visit Be an Advertiser http://beanadvertiser.about.com/index.htm Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
