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May 27, 2025 Juliann Bergin

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Fostering inclusivity and accessibility for children with diverse needs

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April 14, 2025 Christina Cannon

Adapting Communication Devices for Gestalt Language Processors

Authors: Polly Walsh and Christina Cannon SJOG Liffey Services  What is

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March 24, 2025 KLaSalle

Enable Ireland’s Additional Training and Support Resource Page

Assistive Technology is meant to enable independence, but learning how

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March 3, 2025 Juliann Bergin

World Hearing Day -Changing Mindsets: Empower Yourself to Make Ear and Hearing Care A Reality for All

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February 6, 2025 Alan Joyce

Emerging technologies: A look at new technologies enabling greater independence

Highlights from C.E.S. 2025   The Consumer Electronics Show (C.E.S.)

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January 19, 2025 Sean Loughran

E-book Remote Control Page Turner

Introduction  In the age of digital reading, a new product

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Blue Monday

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December 12, 2024 Sean Loughran

Accessible Remote Controls

Assistive technology devices play a vital role in empowering individuals

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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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