techability Archives

TechAbility Conference 2022 – ‘Assistive Technology – everyone’s responsibility’

The theme of this year’s TechAbility Conference is ‘Assistive Technology – everyone’s responsibility’. This theme emphasises how assistive technology must be integrated well, and supported by all staff, to be successful. We are seeking presentations which highlight how this has been promoted and achieved in organisations through practice or research. Full details of the programme […]

Funding for Assistive Technology

In this webinar we’ll talk about where to get funding, how to show the value of the technology and how this impacts on assessments and other interventions.

Accessible photography

Photography is a great activity to run whether it is for leisure, study or work. This webinar will help you with some ideas to make it more accessible.

Grid 3: symbol vocabularies

Grid 3 is a complete communication solution that enables people to have a voice, control their environment and live more independent lives. This webinar introduces the package and the vocabularies available.

SpeakUnique

SpeakUnique develop state-of-the-art voice banking technology, allowing people to create high-quality, personalised synthetic voices. This webinar will be an opportunity to find out more about what is involved and how to access this service.

Captions for video

Adding text to your video calls or recordings can improve accessibility for a wide range of disabilities, it is good practice and can help when sound issues occur. There have been many advances in recent years and this webinar will bring you up to speed and give you a number of options and considerations.

TechAbility Conference 2021: A focus on learners

Building on the success of last year’s conference, we are back again. This time, the focus will be on the learners and service users that make our colleges, schools and centres so great!

Read&Write: literacy support

Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work. Patrick McGrath, Head of Education Strategy at Texthelp, will take us through the key features and be on hand to ask any questions you might have.

Assessment

This webinar will give you the knowledge and techniques for assessment drawing upon real life examples. We will share useful paperwork with you and let you know who you can go to for external assessments.

Accessing technology and languages

Are you working with learners who have English as a second language? We will review tools that can help to cross language barriers. This will include options on computers, tablets, mobile phones and AAC devices.

Claro Writing Helper

Claro Writing Helper helps you organise your essays. It guides you through a linear, structured approach starting with an essay question and a deadline, and ending with your essay in Word format! This exciting new product helps learners with disabilities to understand essay questions, set tasks, manage citations, create bibliographies and much more.

Digital mental health

We are joined by Jisc’s subject specialist for accessibility, Kellie Mote MSc MBPsS, to discuss her research and practice. Expect useful insights from an experienced Assistive Technologist about her investigations into the role of technology acceptance as an influence on young people’s willingness to use digital mental health interventions.