Bridges News

Top 8 Chromebook Simple Switch Activity Sites
  • Access
September 28, 2015

Top 8 Chromebook Simple Switch Activity Sites

[Over the summer an assistive technology specialist at a school-board that’s gone Chromebooks wrote to...
Chromebooks and Switch Access
Chromebooks and Switch Access
  • Access
September 22, 2015

Chromebooks and Switch Access

Chromebooks are more common in schools -- how do you connect a switch to one?
Snap&Read Universal text levelling now has second language support.
  • accessible text
June 18, 2015

Snap&Read Universal text levelling now has second language support.

Just a few weeks ago we wrote about Snap&Read Universal’s text levelling feature. But in...
Kurzweil web subscription/firefly adds Google Drive supports and more
Kurzweil web subscription/firefly adds Google Drive supports and more
  • cloud
June 16, 2015

Kurzweil web subscription/firefly adds Google Drive supports and more

Kurzweil 3000 firefly, the reading tool that comes with the web licence subscription version of...
New Chrome Extension Shifts the Accessible Text Paradigm
New Chrome Extension Shifts the Accessible Text Paradigm
  • accessible text
May 29, 2015

New Chrome Extension Shifts the Accessible Text Paradigm

What’s accessible text? Text that can be read out loud, format changed, notes added etc.?...
Bridges LIVE! Coming to a City Near You
  • Curriculum
February 20, 2015

Bridges LIVE! Coming to a City Near You

We’ve just had our first Bridges LIVE! event in Mississauga and it was a great...
2015 TRENDS -- WEB 2.0 – ENDANGERED SPECIES?
2015 TRENDS -- WEB 2.0 – ENDANGERED SPECIES?
  • assessment
February 12, 2015

2015 TRENDS -- WEB 2.0 – ENDANGERED SPECIES?

Whatever happened to web 2.0? Is Web 2.0 like the dodo -- extinct?
uPAR -- New Breakthrough Reading Accommodation Assessment
  • assessment
October 2, 2014

uPAR -- New Breakthrough Reading Accommodation Assessment

Back in April 2012 we raved about PAR (Protocol for Accommodations in Reading). This is...
Co:Writer Universal is Here! Any Platform, Anytime, Everywhere
Co:Writer Universal is Here! Any Platform, Anytime, Everywhere
  • GAFE/ Chromebook
October 2, 2014

Co:Writer Universal is Here! Any Platform, Anytime, Everywhere

Mac, Windows, or Chromebook PC to iPad -- Co:Writer Universal has got you covered!Co:Writer Universal...
Apple vs. Win in the Classroom -- and the winner is.... Chrome?
  • Access
February 20, 2014

Apple vs. Win in the Classroom -- and the winner is.... Chrome?

This is the second of three posts about trends we see effecting AT in the...
2014 AT trends: Cheap, Disposable -- Accessible?
  • Access
February 12, 2014

2014 AT trends: Cheap, Disposable -- Accessible?

the trend to cheap and disposable will impact education IT and purchasing departments as they...