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Message from AT Manager
by Siobhan Long
In February, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny launched Microsoft’s Youthspark programme with boxer, Bernard Dunne. Mr. Kenny met with our AT Team and expressed a strong interest in the free built-in Ease of Access features within Windows 8. He also learned of Enable Ireland’s Workplace Assessment Service, and saw its potential to retain employees in their place of work following an injury/accident, as well as acting as an enabler to increase the employment rates of people with disabilities in both the private and public sectors.
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Smarthomes Technology - Maximising Independent Living
by Shirley Deakin
Are you interested in learning about the latest environmental control and smart home technology options for people with disabilities? If so, why not come to our workshop: Smart Homes Technology: Maximising Independent Living When: Thursday 11th April 2013 @ 9:30a.m. Where: Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street, Dublin 2 Companies attending: Dynamic Controls, Emergency Response, Healthcomms Homebots, Ideal Technology, Odel , Smartbox AT and Unique Perspectives. Booking: To reserve your place please complete booking form http://www.enableireland.ie/smart-homes-workshop and email to sdeakin@enableireland.ie or Tel: (01) 8714000 This event is hosted by Enable Ireland’s National AT training service. There is no charge to attend
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Switch Skills Workshop
by Shirley Deakin
Switch Access Workshop
Wednesday 10th April 2013
9.15 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.
This one day workshop will focus on all aspects of introducing switches and developing skills in the area of switch access for both children and adults with special needs. The practical, hands on workshop will include such topics as:
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Texthelp iReadWrite App for the iPad
by Karl O'Keeffe
New TextHelp iReadWrite App for the iPad was released last week. Although they already provide a web based toolbar that works on the iPad this new app works without an internet connection and offers additional features. Some of these will be familiar like Word Prediction and Text to Speech with Highlighting and advanced Dictionary that includes a Picture Dictionary which provides an image of the word as well as a text description. You need an iPad running iOS6, it costs €37.99 and is available on iTunes.
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User Driven Design Blog
by Siobhan Long
Are you interested in product design? Perhaps you've got loads of experience of using products, whether AT or others, which are well designed? Or badly designed? We've set up a blog to bring together users, designers, service providers, manufacturers and funders, and we'd love your input. Why not visit our blog to find out more:- www.userdrivendesign.org. We'd love you to add your voice to the conversations.
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Irish Accented Voice
by Sean Loughran
There is a new Irish accented text-to- speech product now available from CereProc. It will work on most operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 7 or Mac OS X. This Irish accented synthesiser is called Caitlin. It has a slight Dublin accent and sounds authentic. This could be an alternative accent for any software that uses text- to- speech. Most communication software, screen readers or literacy support tools allow users to select alternative text-to-speech voices. A demo of the voice can be heard at http://www.cereproc.com/en/node/303 CereProc voices cost £25 For tasks such as screen reading, PDF reading or converting text files to audio format such as WAV or MP3, software such as the following can be used. These are compatible applications, some of which are free, some of which require payment: Balabolka
Word Talk – a speech plug in for MS Word
Adobe Reader – PDF reader
NVDA – a free screen reader
Natural Reader
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