Michigan's Assistive Technology Program
Assistive
Technology Connections
Vol. 7, No. 7, September 2006
In This Issue:
- Calendar
- Program Supported Events Coming
- Financial Education Program
- Free Assistive Technology
- Guide to Accessible Media
- Subscription Information
Calendar:
- October 19-21, 2006 Closing the Gap, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pre
conference: October 17-18, 2006. For registration and information: http://www.closingthegap.com/ctg2/registration2006/index.lasso.
- November 7 - 10, 2006: Accessing Higher Ground Conference: Assistive
Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education University of Colorado
- Boulder Campus For conference registration and general information,
please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference.
Michigan's Assistive Technology Program is providing support for
five upcoming events:
- September 14, Action Day 2006 Conference, Celebrating Independence, Northern Michigan University, Marquette MI. A conference for people with disabilities, their families, friends, advocates and the people that work with them. Co-hosted by MI Protection & Advocacy Service and Superior Alliance for Independent Living. For more information, call 906-228-5744 or 800-379-7245.
- On September 19-20th, Community Connections, the Center for Independent Living located in Benton Harbor, will have an Assistive Technology Resource Room and present two workshops on AT at the Person Centered Planning Conference in Kalamazoo. For more information, please contact Kathy Ellis at (269) 925-6422.
- Mark your calendars for two AT Conferences in November! On
November 8th, UCP of Metro Detroit is holding a free Conference and
Expo "Life Without Limits Through Assistive Technology" at the
Doubletree Hotel - Dearborn with a keynote address by Norman Kunc.
For more information, see www.ucpdetroit.org or call (248) 557-5070. - On November 18th, an AT Conference will be held in Sault St. Marie.
For
more information, please contact the Superior Alliance for Independent
Living at (906)228-5744. - Web Accessibility is the focus of the event
in Lansing on November 7th!
Learn about the importance of accessible web pages in reaching not
only people with disabilities who use AT, but also people who use cell
phones, PDA's and other ways to access the web! For more information,
please contact the Statewide Independent Living Council at (517) 371-4872.
For more local activities around the state, including assistive technology demonstrations, training and public awareness activities supported through the AT Program please see: http://www.copower.org/At/demo.htm and http://www.copower.org/At/awaretrain.htm
Assistive Technology Loan Fund Educational Programs:
MDRC staff member Aimee Sterk is presenting information about assistive technology to help with managing finances and disability etiquette to staff of credit unions. The schedule is:
- September 6, training for Lansing-area
- September 7, training for Grand Rapids-area
- September 21, training for Detroit-area
For more information, contact Adeline Metzler at the Financial Health Credit Union at (517) 319-1300. For more information about the AT Loan and Telework Loan funds, please visit http://www.michiganloanfunds.org/ .
Free Assistive Technology
Online Conferencing Systems has created an online resource library called the 1 Stop of Free Assistive Technology. Click on the link below for a list of more than 175 free applications for assistive technology: http://www.onlineconferencingsystems.com/at.htm
You can download a free simple text to speech toolbar for MS
Word for
Windows from www.wordtalk.org.uk . WordTalk reads and highlights
from
within Word and makes the spellchecker talk. It is a Word template:
if you
already have Windows XP with SAPI 5 voices, then just download
the
template (small and quick to download). If you need the voices
as well,
you'll need the full version - beware it's 50 MBs. WordTalk was
developed
by Rod Macaulay at TASSCC in Aberdeen and distribution is funded
by
the Scottish Executive Education Department.
Free Publication on Accessible Digital Media
The WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), a division of public broadcaster and access technology pioneer WGBH Boston, announces publication of Accessible Digital Media: Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web. These guidelines, providing step-by-step solutions for making a variety of electronic media accessible to users with sensory disabilities, are now available free of charge at http://ncam.wgbh.org/publications/adm/. A free CD containing the guidelines is also available; e-mail access@wgbh.org to order single or multiple copies.
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