WASHINGTON, DC – Monday, May 7th, the White House will, today, honor 14 individuals as Champions of Change for leading the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities in education and employment. “STEM is vital to America’s future in education and employment, so equal access for people with disabilities is imperative, [...]
Mar-81: Steve Jacobs begins his career with NCR Corporation. Sep-91: NCR Corporation is acquired by AT&T. Dec-93: AT&T employees incorporate a not-for-profit business resource group (BRG) The new BRG is named, “Individuals with Disabilities Enabling Advocacy Link at AT&T (IDEAL at AT&T).” Bylaws are written and approved by AT&T Senior management. Sep-95: AT&T announces it [...]
A Whitepaper by: Steve Jacobs, President IDEAL Group, Inc. and, CEO, Apps4android, Inc. Hilliard, Ohio Click this link to access the whitepaper
The Corporate Social Innovation Model: Enabling Positive Societal Change through the Distribution and Use of Accessible ICT Products and Services. A Whitepaper by: Steve Jacobs, President IDEAL Group, Inc. and, CEO, Apps4android, Inc. Hilliard, Ohio Click this link to Access the Whitepaper
Mainstream Business Benefits of Accessible Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Design: Gaining Knowledge, Building Core Competencies, and Developing Powerful Mainstream Business Cases. Designer/Programmer/Developer/Engineer Marketing Manager Product Manager
Authored by: Steve Jacobs President, IDEAL Group, Inc. CEO, Apps4android, Inc. Hilliard, Ohio Click this link to access the whitepaper
Modern flash drives have USB 2.0 connectivity. However, a majority of them do not and can not use their full potential of 480 mbps (megabits per second) or 60MBps (megabytes per second). This is due to NAND (Not AND) “logical processing” flash chips. The read/write speeds of NAND chips vary as much depths in the ocean. [...]
Balabolka http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. On-screen text can be saved as WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA files. The program can read clipboard content and load text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files. You can customize font and background colors. Balabolka allows users to alter a voice’s rate and pitch. [...]
Funding Agencies: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Program Project: Ohio State University Nisonger Center “Access Tomorrow: Using E-mentoring, Web-based and Assistive Technologies for Increasing Achievement and Transition Outcomes (Phase I)” Dates: 08/01/06 – 07/31/09 Cooperative Agreement #: H327A060066 U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Program Project: Ohio State University Nisonger [...]
IDEAL Group’s Portable Assistive Technology Software SmartDrive® includes a large number of portable assistive technology applications. IDEAL Group did not develop any of them. The developers of each application deserve all the credit for developing, maintaining and providing these applications. The URL to the developer’s website for each application is listed beneath the name of each [...]