[Accessibleweb] Can't talk? There is an app for that

[Richard B. Ells]

Quick! Sheryl, Terry, Dan, E.A., write a grant proposal so we can 
have a get together and have some serious discussions on how things
are changing. Maybe it could be titled...

 Powerful Tools, Simple Connections: How the availability of cheap 
 computers, smartphones, and social networking are addressing
 the needs of the disabled.
  

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     Rick Ells
     Senior Webmaster
     UW Technology
     206.543.2875
     rells at u.washington.edu
     http://staff.washington.edu/rells



-----Original Message-----
From: R. Benson [mailto:rbenson at u.washington.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:22 PM
To: Richard B. Ells
Cc: 'UW Web Accessibility Group'
Subject: RE: [Accessibleweb] Can't talk? There is an app for that

Funny that you mention cheap laptops... Like the article mentions, people 
try to get their medicade/care pay for it, and they won't. On the other 
hand, medicade/care will pay for one that is 10 times more expensive. I 
know there is a good number of people on Facebook from DO-IT, they talk to 
other on it often, yet they don't post to the lists publically that I 
see...

--
Ryan E. Benson
Department of Political Science
Access Technology Lab Consultant
rbenson at u.washington.edu

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Richard B. Ells wrote:


> It would be interesting to have a discussion on what the advent of

> social networking, cheap laptops, and smartphones is having on

> meeting the needs of people with disabilities.

>

>   -----------------------------------

>     Rick Ells

>     Senior Webmaster

>     UW Technology

>     206.543.2875

>     rells at u.washington.edu

>     http://staff.washington.edu/rells

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: R. Benson [mailto:rbenson at u.washington.edu]

> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:48 PM

> To: Richard B. Ells

> Cc: 'UW Web Accessibility Group'

> Subject: Re: [Accessibleweb] Can't talk? There is an app for that

>

> Dan found this link (again) a few weeks ago:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/technology/15speech.html

>

> --

> Ryan E. Benson

> Department of Political Science

> Access Technology Lab Consultant

> rbenson at u.washington.edu

>

> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Richard B. Ells wrote:

>

>> The product:

>>  http://www.proloquo2go.com/

>>

>> The article:

>>  http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Graduate-Students-iPhone-App/20549/

>>

>> The article intro:

>>

>>  Graduate Student's iPhone App Gives Voice to Disabled Users

>>

>>  Not many iPhone applications get reviews that call them life-changing.

>>

>>  Samuel Sennott, a doctoral student in special educaton at Pennsylvania State

>>  University's main campus, created an iPhone application that helps people

>>  with communication disabilities speak. He worked with David Niemeijer,

>>  an Amsterdam-based developer, to build the software, called Proloquo2Go.

>>  .....more.....

>>

>>   -----------------------------------

>>     Rick Ells

>>     Senior Webmaster

>>     UW Technology

>>     206.543.2875

>>     rells at u.washington.edu

>>     http://staff.washington.edu/rells

>>

>>

>>

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