Visuals Engine is a free useful resource from ConnectABILITY.

Visuals Engine provides six customizable templates for creating...

• achievement charts;
• choice boards;
• schedules; and
• story boards;

To use the Visuals Engine...

• choose a template;
• choose images or upload images for each box on the selected template;
• type text, if required, to accompany each image on the template.
  

Note: ConnectABILITY provides, at ...

Picto selector is a Word based programme for preparing schedules and other materials for...

• children ;and
• young people with autism.
  

Picto selector is available in a number of different languages by going to the home page of "PECS for All" at http://www.pecsforall.com/index.html.

It is difficult for me to assess the value of this online software as I can see.

WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card.

The huge plus is WebAnywhere...

• will run on any machine,
  
• will run on heavily locked-down public terminals,
  
• will run regardless of what operating system ...

I can hear Chrissie and Keith (Senior Adviser and Technical Adviser) tut, tutting at me for even flagging up software in Alpha; but here goes anyway.

Twitter has emerged as one of the world’s most widely used social networking services.

Twitter’s appeal lies in...

• its simplicity, and
• the way it fosters a sense of immediacy.

Communication on Twitter must be brief and to the point, because “tweets” are limited to 140 characters; it doesn’t have to take up a great deal of ...

Tar Heel Reader, set up by Gary Bishop, is an amazing online collection of accessible “books for beginning readers of all ages” that has grown to approximately 6000 titles!

Tar Heel Reader books are...

• beautifully illustrated with images from Flickr
• truly engaging for a wide range of readers
• accessible to ALL learners.

Tar Heel Reader books can be...

• read and/or listened to online.
• accessed with a mouse, with up to three switches, or via overlays on Intellikeys.
• downloaded qu...