Apple has a history of building accessibility features into its products. Though promotional in nature, the link below provides a useful overview of the accessible features built into Apple products, including the iPad, iPhone, Mac, and the Apple Watch. Check it out, you may discover a feature you want to test out!
Technology is most powerful when it empowers everyone (https://www.apple.com/accessibility/)
Assistive Technology Consultant Shelley Haven, is a certified Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) and a Rehabilitation Engineering Technologist (RET) with more than 30 years of experience.
Haven specializes in learning differences, ADHD & executive functioning. At her website, TECHnology to Unlock POTENTIAL, Havens provides listings of links to a variety of apps.
Because many software tools perform multiple functions, it’s difficult to list technologies by category such as “Technologies for Reading” and “Technologies for Writing” — certain tools would show up in several places — Havens lists the apps by broader topics in a more eclectic manner.
The value of the lists at this toolbox page is that you may be introduced to an unfamiliar app or discover new or updated information about an app you already use.
Note: Havens works in the California peninsula area and the San Francisco Bay area. She also works remotely with clients.
“Most people assume technology expands opportunities for students with disabilities. While the potential exists, it can be realized only if technology is designed and coded [and utilized] with equal access in mind. Despite years of public-awareness campaigns, legal challenges, and advocacy efforts, many commonly used technologies built or purchased by colleges—email systems, learning-management systems, library databases, classroom materials—actually do more to prevent students with disabilities from equal participation than paper-based systems ever did.”
Kyle Shachmut “A New Obstacle for Students With Disabilities.” Chronicle of Higher Education 9/12/14.
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