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July 13, 2018 Sean Loughran

Promoting independent living

One of the dangers for people with disabilities living independently

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July 6, 2018 Siobhan Long

Using 3 D Printing to make our Bloom Garden accessible to people with vision impairment

Enable Ireland’s Garden, ‘Beyond Boundaries’ was an award winner at

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Lost Voice Guy – Winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2018
June 22, 2018 Juliann Bergin

Lost Voice Guy – Winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2018

A few weeks ago, Lee Ridley (a.k.a. Lost Voice Guy)

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June 15, 2018 Sean Loughran

Next generation sensory room

What is your vision of a sensory room?  A room

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May 30, 2018 Sean Loughran

Obi

Many of us agree that eating is one of life’s pleasures.

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May 21, 2018 Sean Loughran

Microsoft announces new Xbox Adaptive Controller for players with disabilities

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Adaptive Controller, an Xbox controller

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April 26, 2018 Siobhan Long

Voices: A free and open journal or magazine representing the voices and thoughts of people with a disability from across the world.

Voices-Issue-1-2 Good news: www.accessandinclusion.net, from David Banes, international AT consultant,

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April 13, 2018 Sean Loughran

Workshops for children with additional needs and their parents

Kildare libraries have been hosting a number free workshops for

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April 6, 2018 Sean Loughran

Smart Homes making life easier

Smart homes may make life easier and more convenient. Who wouldn’t

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play screen featuring images representing the life of classical musician Bach. Each picture plays some music from that period
March 9, 2018 Karl O'Keeffe

‘Eye-Touch’ – an eye-controlled musical instrument

Last week we were visited in Enable Ireland, Sandymount, by

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In this video I'll briefly show how to easily build an Optikey Dynamic Keyboard using our build document and an AI assistant that can be used as an alternative interfaces for games or apps. Descriptive Transcript [Video starts showing the optikey on screen keyboard typing "optikey" on a blank document. It then switches to the Special Effect webpage about EyeMine] Narrator: OptiKey is a free on screen keyboard that people control with their eyes, head, mouse, a joystick or a touchscreen. It can do much more than type though. The UK gaming charity Special Effect built EyeMine from it so that people could play Minecraft with their eyes. [The Spotify control keyboards are shown on screen here. 3 keyboards. One to launch Spotify, YouTube or VLC. One to control the apps with buttons like Next previous, play pause and a favorates keyboard.] OptiKey also has dynamic keyboards. They are small text files that describe keyboards, what each key says and what it does, such as pressing a key or opening a programme. It's a similar idea to the grids in software like the Grid 3 or Communicator. In my experience, dynamic keyboards are underused because there's no editor with buttons and menus. You have to write the files yourself. That's where an AI assistant comes in. [Claude AI chat interface, prompt added and edited. Build document uploaded. Screenshot of game controls uploaded] We wrote a build document and instructions with working examples. I'll upload it, then add a short message, the app I want to control, the functions I want and how the person will use it, and a screenshot of the game controls in this case. Although I could just write them down. Or sometimes you could even just ask the AI to find out the keyboard shortcuts for you. A few moments later I have a first draft, a layout, the keyboard files, and the setup steps. I saved the files in a folder. There's an extra step here that you won't need to do because the new prompt asks the AI to give you the file to directly download. If you're an optic key user, put the file in your dynamic keyboards folder or if you just want to use this optickey for this purpose, as we show here in the console, you can set Optikey to look for this keyboard file on opening so we can restart optiKey. And here's our new dynamic keyboard. [Keyboard docked at the bottom of the screen controling the supermario game] It's a bit hit and miss for these browser based games, but for well designed and implemented games and apps this should work pretty solidly.
Optikey Dynamic keyboards: Accessible alternative access for apps and games
Musician Cillian McSweeney gives us a brief history of his life as a musician who uses Assistive Technology. While he tells his story we see a montage of clips of him playing music live and on TV. We see him using a sound beam, switches and eye gaze. and playing with various bands and musicians in different venues. The second half is a screen recording where he shows a free program that he uses called Eye Play Chords. At the end of the video there's a QR code linking to My Breath My Music where the software can be downloaded.
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