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How Individuals with Speech Impairments Can Use Alexa

How Individuals with Speech Impairments Can Use Alexa Amazon Alexa is a powerful tool that has made us more efficient at gathering information and performing daily tasks. With thousands of integrations with third-party services, Alexa really is like a personal assistant sitting in the room that can do your...

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Give the Gift of Accessibility This Holiday Season!

Give the Gift of Accessibility This Holiday Season!   This holiday season, we invite you to join Tecla and Ontario March of Dimes Canada in sharing the gift of accessibility. For every $175 USD we raise, we will match you, dollar for dollar, and donate a Tecla to...

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Q&A with Owen McGirr - Tecla user and creator of SayIt!

Q&A with Owen McGirr - Tecla user and creator of SayIt! What's the app? SayIt! is an iOS application that helps disabled people speak. The current version is very simple but version 1.1 will include word prediction. The word prediction algorithm is like nothing I've ever seen before. You can use...

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Why Switch Users Need Tecla – and Not Just Switch Control Alone

Why Switch Users Need Tecla – and Not Just Switch Control Alone You might be hearing more and more about Switch Control these days. Apple’s accessibility feature was recently covered by BuzzFeed, where one of Tecla’s first users, Christopher Hills, was highlighted as a great example of someone who uses Switch Control....

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