Assistive technology
Assistive technology products are specialty hardware and software products (screen readers, voice recognition) that provide essential accessibility to computers for those with significant vision, hearing, dexterity and mobility, language communication or learning needs.
Assistive Technology Software:
- Dragon Dictation Software-Speech to text
- Kurzweil Literacy Software-Reads out loud
- Zoomtext-Magnification Software
- NVDA-Non-Visual Desktop Access, screen-reading for vision impaired
- Adobe Acrobat
Campus locations with assistive technology:
- Health & Wellness Bldg Student Disability Resources, - JAWS, Zoomtext, Kurzweil, Dragon, Document Zoom Camera
- Library First Floor Cafe Kurzweil (all PC's)
- Library First Floor Assistive Tech Lab - Dragon, Zoomtext, Kurzweil, Topaz Desktop Magnifier, Book/Document Scanner
- Library First Floor Cafe, Dictation Room, - Dragon, Kurzweil
- Library Second Floor, UROC - Zoomtext, Kurzweil, Dragon
- Library Second Floor, CLC - Kurzweil, Zoomtext
- Heron Hall, Room 155 - TBD
- Beach Hall, CAT - Kurzweil, JAWS screen reader, Zoomtext,
Tutorials
- Accessibility in Windows Windows 7
- Zoomtext Getting Started Video- Screen magnification & screen reading software for vision impaired.
- Dragon Instruction Getting Started Video Speech - Recognition/Dictation software.
- Dragon Naturally Speaking - Training Website - Speech Recognition/Dictation software.
- Jaws Screen Reader Software - User Guides Computer screen reader for the blind or vision impaired.
- Kurzweil 3000 Getting Started Videos - Reading, writing and learning software for learning disabilities, such as Dyslexia, English as Second language learners, and all students
Free Assistive Technology Applications
ATBAR
What is ATbar? ATbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help users customise the way they view and interact with web pages. The concept behind ATbar is simple: One toolbar to provide all of the functionality you would usually achieve through the use of different settings or products.
ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, increase and decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use coloured overlays, readability and a dictionary to aid reading. Spell check forms and try word prediction when writing. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers.
Open source cross browser toolbar available at atbar.org.
Notetaker recorder app for iphone/ipad
Non Visual Desktop Access
Download NVDA 2016.1, the latest version of the free screen reader made by users for users.
Accessible Media Converter Follow four easy steps to have your document converted into an alternative, accessible format. The result is delivered in your email inbox. You may upload one or more files, enter a URL to a file or simply type in the text you wish to have converted. The form expands as you make your selections.