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" Be nice to those on your mailing list who may have low vision, and consider using a font with consistent stroke widths, open counterforms, and pronounced ascenders and descenders to make reading easier for them. Three fonts you may already be familiar with that have these features are; Century Schoolbook, Arial, and Frutiger Bold."

"It has been said that technology has made the world smaller, but for the blind or those with poor vision, iDevices are opening up a whole new world. This AppList highlights some of the most innovative and entertaining apps available to the vision impaired."

The Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Center (ATAC) serves individuals with disabilities and specializes in assistive technologies that help with reading, writing, studying, and information access. We provide services for students, faculty, and staff with the following disabilities: vision (blindness and low vision), mobility impairment, learning (dyslexia, ADHD, and others), and hearing loss.

The content in this wonderful literacy resource combines strategies with how to videos and other training materials. More content is coming soon with potential to grow the resources in the future. While the focus of the content is deaf-blind education many of the strategies are applicable to students with vision or hearing loss and multiple disabilities. Click the Main Menu tab at the top to access all of the resources.

"APHont™ was developed by the American Printing House for the Blind specifically for low vision readers and is offered free-of-charge. APHont is available for both Mac and PC users."

"In my opinion, for something to be sustainable, if must be supported by both financial and human resources, its value must be clear and be recognized by all, and its application or use must be able to evolve as its role in the organizational vision evolves. So, here are my Six Factors of Sticky, or characteristics of technology that make them have the greatest chance of making an impact on learning."

"Leveling the playing field with apps An opportunity to level the playing field for diverse learners has arrived. With the use of mobile devices and a set of apps, barriers to learning can be removed and will set the stage for access to learning for ALL learners. Curated by Kathleen McClaskey"

"Learn about assistive technology for people with reading disabilities, low vision, blindness and other disabilities that make reading, writing and other tasks difficult. Written by someone who uses assistive technology to read and write."

"When the writers of the Next Generation Science Standards began sketching out a new vision for K-12 science education, they gave themselves a mandate: Develop standards with all students in mind, not just the high achievers already expected to excel in the subject."

EyeSight by SightTech was developed to be the most intuitive magnification and color enhancement tool in iOS history. Designed specifically to assist low vision users, this new app allows anyone to magnify any printed material up to 12X, simply by using a few hand gestures with their iOS 5 device. Plus, users can toggle through 6 distinct color-contrast combinations to suit their individal preferences and visual enhancement needs.

"The Assistive Technology Oral History Project is an archive of pioneers in the field of assistive technology (technology for individuals with disabilities). It includes the histories of assistive technology (AT) specialists including occupational therapists, physical therapists, experts in blind and low vision, special educators, audiologists, rehabilitation engineers, software and AT device inventors, and more. "

Our Challenge: Support teachers in using mobile applications effectively to improve student learning. Our Solution: The apptivities website at http://www.apptivities.org/ We ask our ADE colleagues to contribute your apptivities, a specific learning activity using apps on mobile devices. A key part of our vision for apptivities is to provide media resources that give a "view" into best practices in the classroom. apptivities: Models for successful instructional practices with mobile devices It's the application of apps for learning.

"We began with a parent's vision of an inclusive community for families with and without disabilities. The hope was to use technology, particularly computers, to include individuals with special needs and their typically developing peers into one classroom environment. In 2001 a fully inclusive Hope Technology School was established. Now in our tenth year, serving over 120 students, Hope Technology School has become a preschool-through-eighth-grade program including an onsite, NPA-certified Therapy Department, Vocational Education Program, and Assistive Technology (AT) Lab in Palo Alto, California. Our school includes students who are typically developing as well as students with special needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down syndrome, dyslexia, and other learning differences. "

Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications. Major highlights include: Support for popular applications including web browsers, email clients, internet chat programs and office suites Built in speech synthesizer supporting over 20 languages announcement of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position Support for many refreshable braille displays Ability to run entirely from a USB stick or other portable media without the need for installation Easy to use talking installer

GW Micro announces free Window-Eyes initiative for users of Microsoft Office

"MirrorCase owners will find many more uses for their iPad than ever before. Use the MirrorCase at school or work to record lectures, meetings and seminars. Now, you can focus while recording sessions with the ability to play back material at a later time."

"Braille has come a long way since its invention in the 19th century, but it's still tough to apply it to the highly-visual storytelling we see in comics. This realization led Phillipp Meyer, a Copenhagen-based interaction designer, to create the first comic for the blind."