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Apple Accessibility Updates 2023 (Part 1) Assistive Access

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Are emoji bad for accessibility?

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May 17, 2023 Karl O'Keeffe

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Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day Enable Ireland National Assistive Technology

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May 12, 2023 Aviva Cohen

New app interprets the emotions of nonverbal people

Empathic app helps carers interpret the emotions expressed by nonverbal

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April 18, 2023 Karl O'Keeffe

Clicker 8 Webinar Series

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April 18, 2023 Karl O'Keeffe

Learning with Assistive Technology – Primary Education

Learning with Assistive Technology – Primary Education Assistive Technology (AT)

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September 5, 2022 Shirley Deakin

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September 2022 Foundations in AT Course 2023:  Enable Ireland’s Certified

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July 1, 2022 Sean Loughran

Voice banking: Learning from the experience of the broadcaster, Charlie Bird

Voice banking is a technology that allows an individual to

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May 20, 2022 Sean Loughran

Finding available accessible parking spaces

Getting live data can be very useful in daily life. 

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AT supports and resources for Ukrainian refugees

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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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