AbilityNet have put together a wonderful open project called the Global Assisitve Technology Wiki or GATE for short. In their words: “GATE is actually a Wiki, which is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and…
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Alt-Controls.com and AbleGamers petition Sony
Established Accessible Gaming site AbleGamers.com and new-ish kids on the block Alt-Controls.com have teamed up to launch a laudable petition aimed squarely at Sony’s PS3 division. They want support built in at a firm-ware level for reconfigurable controls. The petition…
NanoGames.com
The on-line resource of accessible games NanoGames.com is slowly transforming into something very special indeed. Tweaking game settings has become easier, the web-site has been beefed up with helpful information: things are looking impressive. NanoGames.com owner and designer Dennis Asher…
Accessibility and Rock Band
From AbleGamers: “The great people over at Harmonix have sent us two “ROCK BAND – SPECIAL EDITION”, one for Playstation 2, and one for XBOX 360 for us to use in our fund raising efforts for GDC [promoting accessibility at…
Unique Custom Gaming Controllers – part 2
Mark Felling of Broadened Horizons and “KitsuneNoYume” worked together to build a pretty marvellous bespoke controller to suit Kitsune’s particular abilities, much as MERU did for Frankie in the previous post. This fantastic work spread to the news portals of…
Unique Custom Gaming Controllers – part 1
MERU and others have created some fantastic bespoke controllers for people needing unique solutions. This from their Summer 2008 newsletter: “Nineteen-year-old Frankie has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive, muscle-wastin condition. As a result, he has severely limited mobility and this…
Let’s Tap – SEGA/PROPE potential one-switch game
Let’s Tap is a compilation of games and sensory activities made accessible on the Nintendo Wii by just tapping a box that a Wii-remote sits on. Some of the games are quite high-paced to look at, but the “visualizer” effects…
Vocal Joystick
There’s a great update posted at cnet News on the “Vocal Joystick” (previously mentioned here). It’s a really interesting device that could suit some people well. I can’t help but think that the “Tongue Drive System” would be a faster…
New Technologies – New Accessible Opportunities?
Lumisonic – “Deaf children have been testing software that enables them to see a visual representation of sound waves. Called Lumisonic the software translates sound waves into circles that radiate on a display. It creates a real time representation of…