AIDB's Assistive Technology Services
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Welcome!
AIDB's Assistive Technology Services has provided technical support and training to consumers throughout the state of Alabama for over 25 years and is one of the foremost organizations of its kind in the United States. Assistive technology devices and applications not only improve the quality of life for individuals but also empower them to succeed in fields that were once unavailable or unattainable. Our role includes (but is not limited to):
- Informing the populace of the availability and benefits of assistive devices
- Helping persons determine what assistive devices best suit their individual needs
- Training persons in the use of assistive devices
- Providing on-site technical support to enable consumers to remain continually productive
- Advocating for and supporting blind consumers in their vocational endeavors
If you need remote support call us at (256) 761-3422 or email ahead to schedule an appointment! Here is the file you need - Remote Support
If you are on a Mac - MeshAgent-Remote Support macOS.zip
Our open video chat can be reached at the following link or the QR code below. Be sure and coordinate with a provider before connecting or there will be no one else there. - AT Services Call
If you are having trouble reaching one of our services, please check out uptime status page - AT Servers
If you are working remotely on our courses, check out this post: Sites and Apps
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- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Edith Kelley
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Chris Darnell
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Victoria Martin
- Teacher: Zakkiyah Maynard
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
LinkedIn is a popular social network. While other social networks like Facebook and Twitter focus on personal sharing, LinkedIn is all about professional networking—that is, building a group of contacts to help advance your career.
In this course, you will complete the following required online topics. Assignments are included at the end of this topic.
This topic includes 11 modules and a Quiz, all of which must be completed. Topics include: 1. What is the Internet? 2. What Can You Do Online? 3. Connecting to the Internet 4. Understanding the Cloud 5. Using a Web Browser 6. Understanding Hyperlinks 7. Downloading and Uploading 8. Using Search Engines 9. Understanding URLs 10. How to Set Up a Wi10.Fi Network 11. Choosing a Web Browser 12. Quiz
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Victoria Martin
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
Whether you're new to Windows or just want to brush up on the basics, this tutorial will cover the most important things you'll need to know. We'll show you how to create folders, work with files, adjust settings, and much more.
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Victoria Martin
- Teacher: Zakkiyah Maynard
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Windows 10 was released July 29, 2015. Check out these lessons to learn more about Windows 10!
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
Introduction to Microsoft Windows 8.1
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Introduction to Computer Technology
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
Safety Rules and Regulations
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Devin Prater
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Basic instructions and practice using the mouse. You will be going through the excellent "Mousercise" tutorial developed by Chris Rippel to help you become familiar with basic mouse manipulation.
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Windows 7
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Excel Basics
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Microsoft Office Excel 2010
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X computer operating systems.
PowerPoint is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers and among the most prevalent forms of persuasive technology. Beginning with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft revised the branding to emphasize PowerPoint's place within the office suite, calling it Microsoft Office PowerPoint instead of just Microsoft PowerPoint. The current versions are Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows and 2008 for Mac.
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Welcome to the Microsoft(R) Outlook with Window-Eyes Tutorial for Beginners.
This tutorial contains introductory information and step-by-step instructions for performing basic Outlook functions while reading the screen with Window-Eyes. The information in this tutorial is limited to that which will help the beginning user get started. It includes brief definitions and explanations about Outlook and how Window-Eyes works with Outlook.
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Microsoft Office 2007/2010
- Teacher: Glenda Anderson
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
You can change your screen resolution, zoom in, or magnify your screen to find items on your Chromebook screen better. This lesson will show you how.
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
ZoomText/Fusion Screen Magnifier
- Teacher: Chris Darnell
- Teacher: Victoria Martin
Screen Magnification basics.
- Teacher: Chris Darnell
- Teacher: Victoria Martin
Welcome to Windows Basics with speech. In this course, you’ll learn to use Windows with a screen reader. This course attempts to accommodate all screen readers currently in common use.
Please note also that this course will be updated from time to time with information pertaining to changes in Windows and screen reader usage.
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Devin Prater
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Minimal PowerPoint with NVDA
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Jimmie Smith
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Using Microsoft Word for Windows with a screen reader
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Chris Darnell
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Jimmie Smith
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Basic usage of Non-Visual Desktop Access
- Teacher: Bobby Bedard
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Devin Prater
- Teacher: Dawson Sieger
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
Using Microsoft PowerPoint with Speech
- Teacher: Collin Frase
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Devin Prater
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Devin Prater
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
- Teacher: Ennis Wheeler

This course was designed for the Moodle School demonstration site as an example of a course optimised for the mobile app.
Introduction to the basics of using Chromebooks (Chrome OS)
- Teacher: Heather Lease
- Teacher: Joel Stephens
Testing course
Introduction to Microsoft Windows 8.1
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