Technology
Easter Seals & the ATRC
Upcoming Events…
November 16 Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00 pm and 1:00-3:00 pm
Easter Seals ATRC – Boston Office 89 South St. Boston, MA 02111
Demonstration of “Speak4Use” a voice recognition environmental control unit
Presenter: Graham Bunce, graham@Speak4Use.com
Speak4Use (S4U) merges ECU hardware with voice recognition software, offering wireless control of the [...]
Austin Texas considers smartphone app to report handicapped parking space violations Austin considers smartphone app to report handicapped parking space violations
Austin City Council will consider an item on its Oct. 20 agenda to explore ways the city could implement smartphone technology so that citizen volunteers can report violations of handicapped parking spaces as they see [...]
Discount Internet Service
Comcast is kicking off a statewide campaign in Brockton today, offering discounted high-speed Internet service and netbooks to low-income families.
“Back in my day — 100 years ago — we used encyclopedias, and I remember being very grateful we had them,” said Brockton Mayor Linda Balzotti. “This is a whole different day and age, [...]
The Museum of Fine Arts is acessible -Read the following: Welcome back to the site..
Entrances
The Huntington Entrance (at 465 Huntington Avenue) and the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance (at 200 The Fenway) are accessible with a drop-off area in front, and ramps to the left and right of the stairs. The Huntington Entrance has one power assist [...]
The Watertown Commission on Disability Sponsors Closed Captioning of the Watertown Town Council. The town council meetings are closed captioned live on www.wcatv.org. Below is an image of what the screen looks like when you watch online from your computer. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Stefanie Farrell, CSR, RPR, Level V CART Provider has [...]
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Accessible Recreation Fair, to be hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation. The event will be held on Saturday, June 4th, from 10am-3pm at Artesani Park in Brighton. Activities will include a cycling fair with an assortment of accessible cycles available for use; adaptive recreational activities; [...]
This recent article in the Watertown Patch:
WCAC will begin providing closed captioning for Town Council meetings on Feb. 8. The station may be the first in Massachusetts, one of a handful nationwide to do so.
Tuesday’s Watertown Town Council meeting will have a new feature, one that few, if any, other towns in the Bay State [...]
WATERTOWN — Starting next month, Watertown will pave the way for the rest of Massachusetts’ cities and towns by being one of the first to provide closed captioning of Town Council meetings for at-home viewers.
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Article from www.redorbit.com
Posted on: Monday, 19 April 2010, 11:15 CDT
When it comes to high-tech gadgets like the iPad, most people see a sleek multi-media entertainment platform, but Prof Gregg Vanderheiden sees other potential possibilities for the new Apple touch-screen device.
Vanderheiden, director of the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin at [...]
From now on, when you put a video up on YouTube it will get captions.
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