Difference between revisions of "Accessibility Software"

Evergreen has a standard set of AT software for all of the College’s AT stations.

• Read & Write Gold- A Text To Speech Software that can be installed as a Google Chrome Extention
• Dragon Naturally Speaking v10: A speech recognition software package. Control and use your computer via voice command.
• JAWS v11:(Job Access With Speech) is a screen reader, a software program for visually impaired users.
• ZoomText v9.1: A screen magnifier for Microsoft Windows. For users with limited vision.
• Kurzweil 3000: Reading software with lots of extensions that make it useful for students with many kinds of reading difficulties, not just the visually impaired.
• Inspiration v8: Inspiration is a tool for visual learning.
• Audible Manager: Audible is a reader for audio books and a wide variety of other digital material.
• Icon and Braille+Sync: Software to work with the Icon and Braille Plus mobile manager.
• Learning Ally -- Daisy Reader

Accessible Software often employs optical character recognition known as OCR. Understanding how it works can help you make your content accessible.