web browser for autistic kids

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A grandfather invented a special web browser to help his 6-year-old autistic grandson navigate the web independently.

The story is here:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/artic ... oy/?page=1

You can download the program for free here:

http://www.zacbrowser.com

Offtopic: your web site is cool.

Wow, I wish someone would invent a less cluttered way to view the internet for adults! Sometimes I go crazy with all the garbage that's out there.

PROTIP: said broswer already exists. It's called Firefox

That's really cool! The article mentions that included are some fun animations, like an animated fish tank. I work with a kid who would really love that. He is obsessed with fish, so at the end of each speech session we go on the computer at look at pictures of fish on google images. I think having his own fish animation to look at would send him to the moon.

I tried that browser, out of curiosity. It messed up my registry, and made it impossible for me to access Task Manager in Windows. Rather than playing with the registry, I did a restore.

I can't download that browser, but I can say in college I rewrote the code and inserted pictures to turn Firefox into "Mozilla FireTails"
I seem to deleted that file, but I was inspired after I made this picture, I thought it might get a laugh here:

http://sonicveg.isamedia.org/creative/h ... =29&end=29