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From our friends at ATAccess.org:

Guide to Low-Cost / No-Cost Online Tools for People with Disabilities
2005

Over 200 FREE Assistive Technology applications

BSC Games - For the Blind and Visually Impaired

Disability-related shareware to try

Links page of Disability-related freeware and shareware

R.J. Cooper - Innovative affordable software

Text to Speech Programs:

• HELP Read: Freeware. Full functioned screen-reader.
• Premier Assistive Technology : Commercial (Demo), Freeware .
• TextHELP : Commercial (Demo), Freeware.
• ScreenReader Freeware.
• NextUp - Shareware . TextAloud program.
• Emacspeak : Freeware (Open Source) . Screenreader for Linux.
• Freedom Scientific : Commercial. JAWS, OpenBook, etc.
• ReadPlease : Freeware. General Purpose Text-to-speech program.

Magnification Software:

• The Magnifier : Commercial (Demo) . Screen Magnifier.
• ZoomText : Commercial . Full featured screen magnifier with screen reader.

• Opera Web Browser : Offers Voice Command
• Internet Explorer Browser
• Amaya : Freeware (Open Source). Open Source Accessibility-based
• Netscape Browser
• Mozilla Firefox

Voice Software

• Dragon Naturally Speaking : Commercial . Natural voice Speech to Text Program.
• IBM ViaVoice : Commercial . Natural voice dictation system.
• XVoice : Freeware (Open Source). X-Windows (Linux only, no Windows version
• available) speech to text synthesizer.
• Window Eyes : Commercial . Screen Reader

• Quicktime Player : Shareware. Free Multimedia Player with built in Closed

Captioning support.

• RealOne Player : Shareware . Free Multimedia Player with SMIL (Closed

Captioning) support.

• PowerPoint WWW Publishing Accessibility Tool : Freeware . Plug-In for

accessibility of Web published PowerPoint presentations.

• VirtualDub : Freeware (Open Source) . Linear Video Editing System with

captioning capabilities.

• VobSub : Freeware (Open Source) . Plug-in for VirtualDub for Closed

Captioning manipulation.

• Hot Keyboard : Commercial (Demo) . Allows you to use your keyboard to

paste text and to perform macros in all of your applications and programs.

• Adobe Make Accessible Plug-In : Freeware . Plug-In for Acrobat 5 to make

PDF files accessible.

• Dasher : Freeware (Open Source) . Tool for Alternative Text Input.

Duxbury Braille Translator : Commercial. Converts Text into Braille and

vice versa. Will work with many Braille embossers.

....COMPUTER and INTERNET RESOURCES

Windows Update Page

.....AUDIO / VIDEO / TEXT / CHAT

Audio and Video files come in different formats.

Below are some links to the most common

free audio-video players.

.....Media Players

- Windows Media Player

- QuickTime Media Player

- RealPlayer

- WinAmp Media Player

From our friends at ATAccess.org:

Guide to Low-Cost / No-Cost Online Tools for People with Disabilities

Developed by Northern Illinois Center for Adaptive Technology
In cooperation with Alliance for Technology Access
With support from CTCNet and ILCTC

(Article in PDF Format)

Table of Contents

Introduction/Purpose - Funding Options - Accessibility
At-Risk Students, LD/MI - Deaf-Related - Demos
Downloads - Early Learning - English Language Learners
Information - Literacy - Practice Tests - Vision-Related

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