Blogs --- focus on disability / assistive technology
Many people are contributing to the promotion, education, growth and development of disability issues and assistive technology. Find the work of other blog contributors here.
ATMac Empowering Disabled Apple Users
"This website covers all Apple products with a slant towards disability. We have an interest in users with a disability, adaptive and assistive technology, and making accessible programs and content. We aim to cover all Apple products."
"As well as people with a disability and assistive and adaptive technology users, our audience includes teachers and educators, supporters such as parents and families of AT users, content producers, and application developers."
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Abadi Accessibility News
Blog by author on ADA guidelines and compliance looking at accessibility issues.
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Accessibility NZ
"Blogging About Accessibility & Disability - Online or Not. Accessibility is important. I have experience with web accessibility, with physical structures accessibility, and have a disability myself. This gives me a unique perspective to discuss these issues."
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Assistive Technology
"Blog on the topic of assistive technology, eLearning, mind mapping, project management, visual learning, collaborative tools, and educational technology."
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DisabilityWorks, Inc.
"A place to discuss ideas that impact the disability and aging community." Blog created by Jonathan Kaufman.
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Enabled By Design
"It's all about people-powered products: We are a community of people passionate about well designed everyday products. By sharing our loves, hates and ideas, we can challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to assistive equipment through the use of clever modern design."
Site features: Loves & Hates, Ideas Factory, Product Reviews
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Indiana Asstitive Technology Blog
"Easter Seals Crossroads has been providing assistive technology solutions in Indiana since 1979. In 2007, Easter Seals Crossroads partnered with the State of Indiana, Bureau of Rehabilitative Services to establish the Indiana Assistive Technology Act (INDATA) Project.
INDATA core services include: Information and referral, funding assistance, public awareness and education, device demonstration, device loan, and equipment reutilization.
Information and Referral: Anyone with questions about assistive technology may call our Information & Referral/Funding Specialist to learn more about available services and funding options. Please call 888-466-1314."
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Justice for All Blog
"Justice For All (JFA) exists to defend and advance disability rights and is central to AAPD's mission of economic self-sufficiency and political empowerment of all adults and children with disabilities in the United States. In pursuit of these aims, JFA both shares information and issues high priority calls to action to individual advocates as well as organization run by and for people with disabilities. JFA also supports the principle that people with disabilities and disability issues should be fully-integrated into all national political and policy discussions and decision-making. To this end, JFA also disseminates information about broader domestic policy and political debates that can and often do shape disability-specific priorities."
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Media dis&dat
"A database of news and information about people with disabilities and disability issues"
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Patricia E. Bauer
"PatriciaEBauer.com is a collection of news and commentary about disability issues drawn from news organizations around the United States and elsewhere.
As a journalist and the mother of a young adult with disabilities, I have often wondered why I was not able to find an online source for media coverage of issues relating to disability. Ultimately, I concluded that I needed to create such a resource myself.
I’ve attempted to create a crisply written website, updated regularly, that draws on a wide range of newspapers, magazines and other media resources to bring readers current reports on issues of interest to the disability community."
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Profoundly Yours
"Exploring the world of disabilities and assistive technology in the workplace and lifespace."
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Rolling Rains Report
"The Rolling Rains site is a service to the travel & hospitality industry. It provides resources on Inclusive Tourism - a concept arising from the vigor of a global disability community that both enjoys and asserts the right to full social inclusion."
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SPH Planning & Consulting Limited
Accessibility news blog by SPH.
"SPH is an urban planning and design firm specializing in research, policy development, building auditing and site planning focused on achieving barrier free and universally accessible solutions for developing the built environment, landscapes, policies, programs and services."
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The Assistive Technology Blog
"The Virginia Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at VCU's Assistive Technology Blog is for Assistive Technology providers across Superintendent's Regions 1 & 8. Do you have a question you would like to see answered in the assistive technology blog? EMAIL US and someone on the Assistive Technology team here will post an answer as quickly as we can!"
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To Adapt An Apartment
A blog with posts and video demonstrating one person's adaptations of an apartment suitable, safe and comfortable for wheelchair use.

