Huetility Colourblind Simulator for iPhone

This is the first product to be launched by Huetility.com. It's called Huetility Colourblind Simulator and apparently accurately models the different types of colourblindness, letting a person with normal colour vision see the world through the eyes of a person with colourblindness. It recolours images using the best models of colour vision defiency, which allows the user to compare the original picture with simulations of how different types of colourblind viewers would perceive the colours in the same image; there are different types of colourblindness (red-green, blue-yellow, complete colour-blindness) with varying degrees of severity. There are approximately 300M colourblind people worldwide.

Some images and links to further info above. Watch this space for a review of this new App

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Could this be the future for eye tracking technology?

This extract was taken from an article at: http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/01/16/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy/

"This one’s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it’s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it’s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. I’d imagine holding a blink correlates to mouse clicks."

Read the rest of the article and see the images at: http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/01/16/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy/

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A computer user is affected by the electromagnetic fields generated by electrical equipment - especially computers. Their question was whether there is a solution available to overcome or minimise the effects of this sensitivity. From what I have read, it is a very contentious area of ‘disability’ and either not fully understood, or at worst not even recognised in the UK.

The bottom line is, that everyone appears to be affected in an individual way. Those who use computers will need to consider various methods of screening in an attempt to minimise those effects. It will be a case of trial and error, as there is no ‘off the shelf’ package available. There are so called ‘neutralisers’ on the market, which claim to minimise or stop these electromagnetic disturbances, but I am unable say if or how well they work. One of my more experienced and knowledgeable colleagues related a story of one individual we tried to help some time ago. We tried absolutely everything, including putting the computer behind a glass screen in one room while the user sat in another – and still without success.

Here are some useful links to further reading on the subject:

What is electromagnetic sensitivity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_sensitivity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrosensitivity

http://www.electrosensitivity.org/

Is your home making you ill ? : http://style.uk.msn.com/wellbeing/mindbodysoul/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5580415

Life & Style blog: http://blogs.theage.com.au/lifestyle/renovationnation/archives/2007/04/does_the_wirele.html

Neutralising electro magnetic fields at home/work: http://www.nontoxic.com/electromagnetic/neutralizingmagnetic.htm

Bodyshield products: http://www.e-lifeshields.com/products.htm

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An article written by Corey Krull, Wednesday, 06 May 2009 20:41

Since I am the new person here and this being my first article, I thought that I would tell you about how I play games. Also, to let you know what accessible devices I use and how they are used. To begin with, when I must live in the real world, I need someone to assist me with just about everything. As you know, if you have any type of MD or disability for that matter, everyday there are many obstacles and barriers that we must overcome.

Whenever I live in the gaming world, it's a different story. Once I am setup on my PC and in a game, I do not need anyone to assist me with anything. I have complete freedom and control to do whatever I want. I can become whoever I want to become, live in any world and/or age that I choose and cause all the carnage that I feel. This world is mine; if you are a friend, I welcome you. If you are a foe, you are still welcome to enter but just be ready to defend yourself or it will be your death. Unless, I choose to spare your life, do not expect me to though.

Wow, I think that I must have some kind of God complex or something. But in all seriousness, which world would I rather live in? If you said the gaming world, you have guessed correctly. The only way for this to happen is with the right hardware setup.
Assistive devices, How I Play quadjoy.jpg. Well, you are probably wondering how I am able to play any PC game. Better yet, you may be wondering what assistive devices and software I may be using. Everyone has their own ways of playing games and some setups are better than others are.

Read the rest of Corey's article at: http://ablegamers.com/general-news/542-muscular-dystrophy-doesnt-keep-me-from-gaming.html

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The eAccess II project aims to provide users with disabilities, especially users with visual impairments, and motor disabilities with learning opportunities to explore accessible training content and e-training courses, which are available at the web portal of eAccess II. The training content and e-training courses are based on international specifications such as IMS Learning Design. In addition, this project delivers training for developing and sharing accessible training content and e-training courses that can be reusable among different VLEs.

eAccess II provides a training resources repository that can be envisaged to benefit two main groups of people. People with disabilities can use the free training resources uploaded in the platform for various themes of training while training providers can use the repository to exchange content with other colleagues. The repository already contains a vast amount of accessible training resources on a wide range of subjects.

The eAccess II project invites users with low vision, color blindness, and motor disabilities, as well as professionals in vocational education and training fields to register in its web portal. Once they register in the web portal, they will be able to learn new skills and concepts by downloading accessible training content and e-training courses.
The official webiste of eAccess II is: http://www.eaccess2learn.eu/index.php

The registration link of eAccess II is:
http://www.eaccess2learn.eu/register_roles.php?role=LA

Please pass this out to persons, who are interested in this innovative project!

Should you wish to find out more info about the project, please do not hesitate to contact e-ISOTIS. Please mention e-ISOTIS in the registration process.

e-Isotis Athens (Main Office)
61 Aiantos & Athinas
Athens 131 22
Greece

Phone+30 210 2693760
Fax:+30 210 2693775
info@e-isotis.org

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Following on from Part #1 . . . . .

Plus or Minus – use the + or – symbols in your search to include items or exclude them. If I wanted to find energy food that did not contain nuts, I would type ‘energy foods –nuts’ - note the minus sign is next to the word nuts after the space. If I wanted an energy drink that had orange I would type ‘energy drink +orange’. You can also use several symbols in combination, e.g. ‘energy drink +orange –sugar –caffeine’.

Put your query in double quotations: “query” – when you type in a query most search engines will look for any combination of the words on a page and in some cases even variations of the words. By using double quotation marks, you are telling the search engine to show pages that contain the query exactly as you have typed it. Searching for marathon man +film found 3,420,000 results and “marathon man +film” found only 282 results in MS live Search. [All result figures are correct at time of testing.]

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This wiki on headtracking hardware is excellent, thank you.
Please read my blog to see how I used this technology to control an entire audio video entertainment system with a head tracker

PC-boulevardier.blogspot.com

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A user was getting an 'out of memory' error every time they tried to take a screen shot and then paste into Windows Paint. You apparrently can't uninstall and reinstall Paint on it's own as it's part of the operating system. After trying several options, the problem was eventually traced to the settings in Paint itself. Ginto Paint and select 'Image' from the toolbar. Check what the image attributes are. If they are set too high, then you may not have enough memory to store the image in the clipboard. Select the default setting and this should cure the problem.

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The Fizzbook Spin is an updated version of this children’s laptop and offers educational organisations more choice of specification, performance and usability.
Like the original Fizzbook Bang, the Spin is an adapted version of Intel's Classmate PC and features a swivelling screen and the ability to transform into a modern tablet style pc with a touch-screen input interface.
Read more about the Fizzbook Spin here...
http://www.thefizzbook.co.uk/fizzbook-spin.html

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Some assistive technology is not presently fully compatible with Vista 64 bit OS. A guy with C5 paraplegia recently had problems getting Dragon Naturally Speaking to work on his new Vista 64 bit OS based laptop. When he bought it, he was unaware of this incompatibility. Unfortunately, although he eventually managed to cancel his purchase agreement with the laptop supplier, it has still cost him his (substantial) deposit. I understand that Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 10.1 is due to be released sometime in March 2009 and this is expected to be fully Vista 64 bit OS compaitible. This is the second enquiry I have handled regarding 64 bit OS compatibility with assistive software. I recommend you carefully check compatibility of assistive software with particular operating systems, before you buy. It could be a costly mistake. That advice includes any operating system and not just 64 bit.

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