Bridges News

Chrome extensions and Privacy — 4 Questions to Ask 0

Extensions are a key reason why the Chrome web browser has become the world’s favourite, and a conduit for Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and Chromebooks into schools. Educators, consultants and AT specialists are trading favourite extensions with a gusto that we witnessed with iPad apps, just a few years ago.

But whether it’s free or a paid-for extension, there are important questions educators should consider about user-privacy and data collection if your using Chrome extension on any school (student or educator’s) computer.

Grid 3's Chat History feature awarded patent 0

The Chat History feature in Grid 3 is now patented technology.

Grid 3 Now Available in Canada! 0

Bridges is thrilled to announce that the most advanced AAC and alternative access software out there, the Grid 3, is now available in Canada.

Breakthrough features and a simply elegant user interface give the Grid 3 unmatched ease-of-editing for the support team, with powerful access and communication tools for all communicators.

Symbolized Oh Canada in Widgit Online 0

As with symbolizing, In Flanders Fields, Oh Canada's abstract language created some interesting challenges and conversations around the office when we set out to symbolize it in Widgit Online.

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Specifically "native," "command" and "guard," made us think.

"Native" generates a symbol of a first nations person (see the slideshow below for the images mentioned here). However, in the context of "our home and native land," that's not really the meaning that fits. The two words "native land" here mean something like "motherland" or "fatherland"or "birthplace." Using the symbols for parent or birth made the meaning too literal and a distraction from the concept trying to be communicated.