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.?...
Free Symbolized Resources for 2015 Pan Am Games
  • AAC
May 28, 2015

Free Symbolized Resources for 2015 Pan Am Games

Inspired by our recent March break camps and up coming summer camps, our training department...
What we’ve learned at Bridges LIVE this year!
  • Events
May 8, 2015

What we’ve learned at Bridges LIVE this year!

1) Multi-platform is the new eco systemAt BridgesLIVE events we've seen BYOD in action. From...
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?
e-Campus News reports how Kurzweil 3000 web, firefly makes a big difference in college
  • Colleges/ Universities
January 27, 2015

e-Campus News reports how Kurzweil 3000 web, firefly makes a big difference in college

e-Campus News, the journal of technology news for higher-education, recently published a feature story on...
Accessible Text Repositories -- Canadian and International
  • accessible text
December 10, 2014

Accessible Text Repositories -- Canadian and International

Recently, a teacher in BC whose student just received Kurzweil 3000 called and said "Given...
Bridges Announces New Low Cost Eye Gaze Systems
  • AAC
December 9, 2014

Bridges Announces New Low Cost Eye Gaze Systems

Bridges, the Canadian source for eye gaze technology, is pleased to announce the arrival of...