Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Learn and practice contracted braille (Unified English Braille) with Braille Tutor!
Braille Tutor provides an interactive learning experience for a sighted or blind braille learner. It works on iPad using onscreen keys or home keys on
a Bluetooth keyboard. It is self-voiced, but also works with iOS accessibility.
The app uses sounds and text-to-speech to support vision-impaired learners. Using a Bluetooth keyboard also gives the user a feel of the keys.
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Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Travel to worlds at the edge of the solar system aboard NASA’s New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto and the distant Kuiper Belt. This app brings you inside this historic voyage, from the New Horizons spacecraft and its science instruments, to the latest news and pictures, to education programs and activities.
Main features include:
News: Get up-to-the-minute reports from the New Horizons news center and Twitter feed.
Media: Browse through stunning images…
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Bring your notes and audio together with Noted
Noted is a fully-integrated audio recording and note-taking app. Perfect for lectures, meetings, interviews and conferences, everything you type is time-stamped to your audio recording – giving you an instant overview of all the important details.
By bringing them together, you never need to worry about trawling through pages of notes or hours of audio ever again. Just add a #TimeTag, so you can return to key moments instantly, and…
Free With In-App Purchase
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Turning mental math into a game
Made in Canada
Mental math is a skill everyone uses to quickly solve everyday operations. Whether it is adding up the prices for the items in your shopping cart or figuring out how to split slices of pizza between you and your friends, small and fast calculations are needed all the time.
However, acquiring good mental math skills can be long and boring.
No kid wants to sit around and memorize their times tables or do sheets of…
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Story Dice is a creative tool to prompt ideas for plot, character, and setting. This idea generator can be used effectively for both written and oral storytelling.
This app can be used with a wide variety of age groups ranging from preschoolers to teenagers.
The user interface is simple enough for ages 3+ to use without any additional instruction. The use of the app does not require reading, so it is an ideal tool for using in a preschool story circle (see lesson plans) as well as…