ViPi project in 7th incluD-ed newsletter
Includ-ed, the European network on inclusive education and disability, featured the ViPi project this week in their 7th incluD-ed newsletter.
Includ-ed, the European network on inclusive education and disability, featured the ViPi project this week in their 7th incluD-ed newsletter.
A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia is gaining favour.
A B and C from the OpenDyslexic font – designed to give ‘gravity’ to letters to prevent the characters rotating in readers’ minds
OpenDyslexic’s characters have been given “heavy-weighted bottoms” to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers.
A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as an option for its users.
The font has also been built into a word processor, an ebook reader and has been installed on school computers.
The project was created by Abelardo Gonzalez, a New Hampshire-based mobile app designer, who released his designs onto the web at the end of last year.
Source: BBC
The assistive application for smart mobile devices Alzminder is being developed, in the framework of the EVGIRASKO project of G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd. The project EVGIRASKO is co-financed by the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism of the Republic of Cyprus, within the framework of the Plan for Entrepreneurship Innovation. The project concerns the creation of an innovative product for the global market through the completion of the development of the Alzminder assistive mobile application, as well as the development of an Internet-based supportive Platform to facilitate the remote configuration and control of the mobile applications.
The first version of the assistive application is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2014. The key features of the application are:
For further information please do not hesitate to Contact us or visit the project/product Website at: http://www.evgirasko.eu .
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