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Archive for the ‘Assistive Technology’ Category

LiveScribe Available for 2 Weeks Trial

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

DAS has a new tool that may help improve your grades! We are testing a new product, Smartpen by Lifescribe. Students use the pen to take notes as usual but the pen links your notes with an audio of your lecture. The user writes in a special notebook with the pen, and the pen is [...]

Are your PDFs accessible?

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

PDFs are more and more becoming the standard document structure used to disseminate documents. In the creation of PDFs, it is important to consider accessibility.

Using your Mac for E-Text

Friday, October 1st, 2010

With the increase in the number of students using Mac computers on campus we’ve seen a growing need for Mac software to support e-text, specifically the format we use, Daisy. There are currently three options I recommend for Mac computer users who receive e-text: Emerson-Reader (a free text to speech reader), VoiceOver (Apple software built [...]