developmental disabilities
Upplands Lokaltrafik 1.0
Plan your journeys in Uppland, Sweden using this great dashboard widget. more>> TouchStrokes provides a fully-functional virtual keyboard for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X (including Tiger and Leopard) that works by drawing a keyboard image on the display and allows you to type characters into any normal application using a mouse, touch screen, graphic tablet, trackball, head pointer or other mouse emulator. It works seamlessly with all standard Mac applications (including those running in the Classic) allowing you to type virtually anywhere a hardware keyboard can be used. TouchStrokes automatically adjusts to US and international keyboard layouts and has multiple resizable keyboard models. It handles command-key combinations, dead-keys, and modifier key - click combinations. It offers a quick access toolbar and has many customizable settings.
TouchStrokes is ideal if you work with a touch screen, electronic white board, or set-up a touchscreen kiosk. Also for artists working with large graphic tablets or server managers that want to eliminate the clutter of having multiple physical keyboards on a desk it provides a great solution. People with disabilities should also check out KeyStrokes virtual keyboard, which offers special accessibility features.
TouchStrokes works with any mouse or mouse emulating device that is compatible with Mac OS X. This includes the Wacom Graphire and Intuos tablets and Cintiq displays. It also includes Mac OS X compatbile touch screens such as those from TrollTouch or just about any touch screen using the drivers from Touch-Base. Such touch screens are a great combination with a Mac mini and TouchStrokes to create a touch screen kiosk or station.<<less
SpeakAssist 1.0.1
SpeakAssist comes as an easy-to-use but useful application that can take what you type and convert it immediately into spoken words. more>>
SpeakAssist 1.0.1 comes as an easy-to-use but useful application that can take what you type and convert it immediately into spoken words. Designed for the laryngitis afflicted and for others with vocal difficulty or disability, it uses Mac OS X's built in speech engine and makes it as easy as typing a message and pressing return.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
uControl 1.4.6
uControl is a keyboard remapper and more. Meaning, those useless keys can now be reused, remapped, or reduced more>>
uControl gives you the ability to take those useless keys, that youre certain would have been better fashioned as something else, and turn them into something useful.
It started out as a simple hack to remap the caps lock key to a control key but has since evolved into a fairly sophisticated means of not only remapping modifier keys, but gives your trackpad a virtual scroll wheel, or gives lefties a sensible mouse, or gives people with disabilities the ability to type with one hand. Note: the one-handed typing ability has been removed due to possible patent infringement.
Main features:
- Swaps your left and right mouse buttons. Contributed by Paul Guyot.
- Apply Settings to a Particular Keyboard since version 1.3.0
- You can choose what keyboard you want a modifier mapping applied to. This is especially useful for external keyboards made for windows boxes that have the Option and Command key swapped (or alt and Windows keys in PC-speak).
- Scroll Wheel Emulation since version 1.2.0
- Gives your track pad, or mouse, a virtual scroll wheel. Hold down the key(s) of your choice, and your track pad instantly becomes a scroll wheel not just for vertical scroll bars, but horizontal ones as well. Use it once and youre hooked. Generously contributed by Alex Harper.
- Real Function Keys since version 1.0.7
- Removes the need to hold down the fn key to access the function keys (useful on laptops). The implementation of this feature was completely redone by Alex Harper in 1.3.5, and it works much, much better than before. It now uses the same method that OS 9 used. Also, many thanks to the Linux PPC folks, Jimi X and Matthias Grim, who discovered how to do the actual ADB muckery that was required.
- Power Delete since version 1.0.7
- Turns shift delete into a forward delete key. Generously contributed by Graham Bakay. (It should also be noted that fn-delete will give you forward delete.)
- Remap Caps Lock to Control since version 1.0.1
- The feature that started it all, and inspired this rant, "Tired of hitting all the wrong modifier keys on your laptop to get that simple control sequence? Are you forced to drag a keyboard around with you that has the control key in the right place? The place that Apple mistakenly put the caps lock key. Take control back! uControl maps your control key to its rightfully intended place on your laptops keyboard; the place thats currently occupied by the oft-unused caps lock key." (Actually as of version 1.0.7 you can remap caps lock to any modifier key.)
- Twerq since version 1.0.1
- Mirrors the key map by holding down the space bar. This is an accessibility feature I added for my mother who has a little trouble with her left hand. It makes one handed typing much easier. (Made available within uControl in version 1.0.7, was previously a separate hack.) Note: this feature has been removed due to possible patent infringement.
Enhancements:
- Updated the installer to work with Mac OS 10.3.8. Many thanks to Aaron Botsis for providing a patch that worked for some. And special thanks to Ingo Paschke whose patch seems to be working for all.
VitalLock 0.124
VitalLock is designed to be a free secure private emergency messaging system allowing you to deliver your private emergency messages instantaneously or upon an event such as disaster, disability, detention or death. more>>
VitalLock 0.124 is designed to be a free secure private emergency messaging system allowing you to deliver your private emergency messages instantaneously or upon an event such as disaster, disability, detention or death.
With VitalLock you can easily send private emergency messages to any number of recipients right now or schedule your emergency messages for delivery in the future to your friends, family and loved ones.
Much like email, our Adobe AIR powered Rich Internet Application provides a simple yet safe, secure and private protected space to write, store, schedule and send important and emergency messages and documents.
Enhancements:
- Personal Emergency Broadcast System Alerts Twitter SMS, Facebook and Email Notifications
Requirements:
- Adobe AIR 1.5
messages instantaneously or upon an event such as disability, detention or death. VitalLock 0 ... deliver your private messages instantaneously or upon an event such as disability, detentionLicense:Freeware
LegendWeaver 1.0b3
LegendWeaver is an up-and-coming MUD client. Its currently in its developmental stages though, so bugs -do- exist more>> LegendWeaver is an up-and-coming MUD client. Its currently in its developmental stages though, so bugs -do- exist. Its features include:
- Full scripting support including nested if and loop statements, variable manipulation, mathematical functions, and array searching.
- Variable support, including arrays
- Basic Trigger, Alias, and Macro support.
- Supports MSP! (MSP 0.3 compliant)
- Basic ANSI colour support.
PowerPC, System 7.5.1 or later, Open Transport, QuickTime 4.0 or later.
Avatari 0.2.2
A free application to update your avatars across the Internet with one click more>>
Why use separate validation tools to check your web pages when you only need one?
The Total Validator Tool performs the most important validations on your web pages: True (X)HTML validation against published W3C/ISO DTDs; accessibility validation against the W3C and US Section 508 guidelines; spell checking against one of five languages; and testing for broken links.
Why these 4 validations ...
Search engine robots/spiders are very fussy and will not search or index some or all of a site if they come across invalid HTML. So if you want to be properly listed you need to be sure your HTML is valid.
Just because you can use your website doesnt mean that someone with a disability can. You should ensure your sites conform to the W3C WAI Accessibility Guidelines, (and that also means strictly W3C validated HTML), or US Section 508 standard, if you want your site to be accessible to all.
Spelling is often left unchecked and will make your site look and feel unprofessional and even unusable.
Broken links are the bane of every webmaster, you may get your internal links correct, but external sites tend to change all the time, and theres nothing that makes your site look worse than a link to nowhere. So you need to regularly check your site for broken links.
If you need more than the this tool provides then keep a look out for the full version that allows you to test more than a page at a time, has more options for each validation and can be optionally run from the command line.
Requirements: Java 1.5.0 or later
<<lessLittleGeometry 1.2.1
LittleGeometry is designed as a smart and useful geometry toolkit. more>>
LittleGeometry 1.2.1 is designed as a smart and useful geometry toolkit. It has been designed to help children with disabilities to make their geometry exercises.
It has been designed to help children with disabilities to make their geometry exercises
Proloquo 2.0.2
Proloquo 2.0.2 is a useful tool that help disable people who cannot speak that provides: a full-fledged communication system (AAC) for people who cannot speak; or provides speech feedback in any application while typing for children and people with learning disabilities; and can serve as a talking word processor; (4) provides an advanced, multilingual speech engine for our KeyStrokes on-screen keyboard and our SwitchXS switch access solution. more>> <<less
gpsdX 1.5
gpsdX - GPSd daemon with GUI config utility more>>
gpsdX is a Universal Binary build of GPSd, complete with an installer and a GUI configuration utility that makes it easy to set up the daemon on your system.
gpsdX works with any program that supports GPSd (such as gpsdrive, KisMac or gps2geX)
if your GPS software doesnt support it yet, contact the developer and tell them about GPSd!
Enhancements:
- Updated to match a version bump in the GPSd project
- Disk image re-created to reduce download size substantially
- Incorporates new (developmental) command to allow clients to query the buffering logic in use
- No other significant changes - users with version 1.4 need not upgrade.
ATutor 1.6.3b1
ATutor is a rather praiseworthy Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) which has accessibility and adaptability in mind. more>>
ATutor 1.6.3b1 is a rather praiseworthy Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) which has accessibility and adaptability in mind.
Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, and develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment.
ATutor is the first fully inclusive LCMS, complying with the W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications at the AA+ level, allowing access to all potential learners, instructors, and administrators, including those with disabilities who may be accessing the system using assistive technologies. Conformance with W3C XHTML 1.0 specifications ensures that ATutor is presented consistently in any standards compliant technology.
- HTTP Web Server is required. (Apache recommended )
- PHP version 4.3.0+, or 5.0.2+, with Zlib, MySQL (and MBString for ATutor 1.6+) support enabled.
- MySQL - As of ATutor 1.6, MySQL 4.1.10+ is required
Bobby 3.2
Bobby is regarded as a very flexible and effective web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. more>>
Bobby 3.2 is regarded as a very flexible and effective web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. CAST offers Bobby as a free public service in order to further its mission to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through the innovative uses of computer technology.
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