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We hope that you are fine in these difficult and uncertain times. We at Mouse4all have been busy updating our app during the last months. We are excited to announce in this post many new features. We encourage you to use them and let us know what you think.

In order to experience the new Mouse4all features, make sure that you have updated the Mouse4all app to the latest version available in Google Play (version 5.0.1 or higher).

In this post we explain the different options to purchase and use Mouse4all. The article also provides hints to choose the best bundle for everyone.

Before we start, a quick overview of what is a switch and how Mouse4all uses switches to access any Android tablet or smartphone.

There are many people that cannot use a touch screen due to a disability: persons with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, ALS of brain stroke are just some examples. Which are the alternative methods that they have to use an Android tablet or smartphone?

In this article we describe the main available options. Note that these choices are not exclusive. For example, one person may use a mouth joystick while she is sitting in her wheelchair and a head switch while lying in bed.

Imagine having to control everything you want using only a light switch. That is the situation of many persons with severe physical disabilities that cannot type on a keyboard, move a mouse or speak to a voice assistant like Alexa. They can just press one switch or button with their foot, their hand, their chin or their head.

In this article, we are going to talk about how persons with disabilities can use Mouse4all together with a switch to access any app on their smartphone or tablet. This article is based on the excellent guide “Switch access to technology” written by David Colven and Simon Judge of the ACE Centre (you need to register, but it is free to download).

Mobile Apps are the new way of accessing services for a greater part of humanity every day, and people with disabilities are not an exception. From the trivial to the vital, mobile apps are catering to the needs of users all around the world in the most diverse scenarios in a moment in history when almost anybody, even in the most remote places, have access to some kind of mobile device.

This article lists and describe the use of some of the most useful Android apps for disabled adults.

Last week we participated in a special event, Low Cost Albacete, organised in the city of Albacete in the core of La Mancha (homeland of Don Quixote) by Ceapat Imserso. It is a reunion of persons with disabilities, families, children, therapists, engineers and any person interested in sharing and learning about technology applied to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

People who suffer from cerebral palsy, experience a permanent movement disorder. Apart from this motor disability, they may also have some impairments in their hearing and visual capabilities, and even some intellectual or other developmental challenges.

The use of assistive devices is vital to help them perform routine activities, navigate the world, enhance their learning and reach their functional potential with the tools that the modern world provides.

This article summarizes some of the most usual and useful tools that they may encounter and use by themselves.

Quadriplegics can do, by themselves, many more things than most of us can realize. Even though their motor skills are heavily impaired and they have difficulties in using their upper and lower limbs, they just need the right tools to do many things that otherwise would have to be done by someone else.

In this article we focus on the humblest of all tools: the mouth stick. Many things can be done with it.

The World Health Organitation (WHO) estimates that more than one billion people are in need of one or more assistive products (mostly older people and disabled persons). With populations ageing and the rise in noncommunicable diseases, this number is expected to increase to beyond two billion by 2050.

Currently, only one in ten people in need have access. WHO established the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) to assist Member States to improve access to assistive technology as a part of Universal Health Coverage. The objective is a world where everyone in need has access to high-quality, affordable assistive products to lead a healthy, productive and dignified life.

People with physical disabilities are struggling every day to perform some tasks that the rest of the world find easy and require, for them, no second thoughts. Assistive technologies are those arrangements and devices that intend to make life easier to those people, by removing barriers and by enhancing their physical and mental capabilities. They greatly improve their quality of life, optimism and mood.

In this article we will show some examples of assistive technology devices designed to help people with physical disabilities of any kind.