# Leapfrog

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by The royal princess (Zone BBS Addict) on Saturday, 07-Jan-2012 16:22:18

I don't know if to post this here, but I was wondering if any of you have seen a leapfrog and have tried to use it? I wanted to see if it is accessible for the blind or not, thanks.

## Post 2 by Blondie McConfusion (Blah Blah Blah) on Saturday, 07-Jan-2012 23:07:46

I'm guessing that you are referring to the children's toys?
Leapfrog is actually a company that makes loads of different toys. I have no experience with the newest thing, the leap pad, which is their version of a kids tablet. I do know that the tag jr. and tag reading systems are not accessible when it comes to downloading the books onto the pens, but once the books are downloaded, they are totally accessible and I highly recommend them.
If I'm totaly wrong about this and there is something else out there called leap frog, I'm sorry.

## Post 3 by The royal princess (Zone BBS Addict) on Sunday, 08-Jan-2012 20:35:13

Oh no you got it right. I was talking about the tablet. The one I was looking at was the leapster.

## Post 4 by mat the musician (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Thursday, 12-Jan-2012 22:43:09

The Leapster is pretty inaccessible, it does give spoken feedback, but relies heavily on sight. The older Twist and Shouts, as well as the Turbo Twist series are accessible. The older leap pad, is pretty accessible, if the books are brailled, and stickers are applied to the pictures. A lot of the games in the books are accessible, the only inaccessible book is Brain Twisters: Search And Find, unless you can remember where a large amount of small objects are located on a page. Even with stickers on the pictures, that book is pretty hard to play. I haven't tested the IQuest handheld, but it seems pretty accessible.
I was a big LeapPad fan when I was little, and I played with it for hours. LeapFrog should have stayed with the older age group, but they've moved back to the pre-school to second grade level. I loved their edutainment method of teaching material. I don't mean to sound cliched, but it's so fun, you do not even know you're learning.
Matthew

## Post 5 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2012 19:32:42

I had several of their toyds and they for pretty accessible. but as I gewe older they were donated to my brother.

## Post 6 by Sarah92 (Account disabled) on Friday, 02-Mar-2012 3:49:24

Cool, I have never heard of the Leap Pad just Leapfrong.

## Post 7 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Sunday, 04-Mar-2012 18:14:00

There were a few cases where the leapster was accessible. in the dora the explorer cartridge, for example, one of the games was played using only sound and the phisical buttons. it was a simon type game.

## Post 8 by mat the musician (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Saturday, 10-Mar-2012 21:49:02

I'm wondering about the MR. Pencil games for the Leapster Explorer, and Leapster 2. They're suppossed to teach children how to write, and I'm wondering if it may help people who use braille, and have never written in print via pencil. This may sound odd, just throwing the idea out there.

## Post 9 by little foot (Zone BBS is my Life) on Sunday, 11-Mar-2012 10:29:22

I have hire of leap frog toys for his but I do not have any of them.
what do they have for a one year old if any one nos

## Post 10 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Monday, 12-Mar-2012 9:06:58

powertouch, I guess.

## Post 11 by Starcannon20 (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2012 5:32:47

they have a lot of toys for 1 year olds you would have to search their site. However, what I've found is that the software that you need to upload info about your kids and download songs and books to the tablets is not accessible at all. I have to have my husband handle this so I wouldn't reccomend their products if you don't have sighted assistance.

## Post 12 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2012 20:48:22

what would you recommend then?