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Hawking Toolbar

Makes the web accessible for users with motor skill impairments

Hotspots

Hotspots is now open source and public domain or free software. It may be used by a number of users on one computer or by one user on a number of different computers.

ICUTalk

ICUTalk was a research project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) from 1999 to 2002. The project developed an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system to help patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU) who are temporarily unable to speak due to their medical condition or treatment, namely the intubation procedure. This was a multi-disciplinary collaborative project involving staff from the University of Dundee (School of Computing and the School of Nursing & Midwifery) and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (Speech & Language Therapy and Intensive Care Unit). Andy Judson was the software developer and Professor Ian Ricketts was the primary investigator and Dr Annalu Waller was the secondary. The software has continued to be developed (although its been a wee bit slow), it remains in use in Ninewells Hospital, and there has been wider interest in it from around the world (not enough to warrant selling it though).

Jambu

Jambu makes the web easier to access for those who interact with computers using switches and head mice or other types of Alternative Input device. It is designed for users with mobility impairments who find keyboard and mice difficult or impossible to use.

PowerTalk

PowerTalk automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images. Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows. Note: The "Latest version" information here is not currently maintained. Select the external download link to Sourceforge for the latest versions!

Special Access To Windows

Software that enables Windows to be controlled by one or two switches,a joystick, a trackerball or a headpointer. SAW 5 has many additions and feautures to make creating interfaces easy for those who use alternative inputs.

Symbol & Concept Coding Editor (aka SYMBERED)

Building a Symbol and Concept Coding Editor for CMS, based on CCF(ConceptCodingFramework).

Talking Notes for Powerpoint

For those with speech problems who need to talk to a Powerpoint presentation.