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Acta

Acta is an outline processor. It lets you organize just about anything -- reports, ideas, lists, projects, graphics -- in the form of an outline, where topics have subtopics.

Another Lens

Another Lens displays a magnified view of the area of the mouse cursor. Quite handy, for example, for drawing software.

Audio Enriched Links

Audio Enriched Links provide previews of linked web pages to users with visual impairments.

AutoHotKey

An open source macro style program that can re-map the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions as well as automate pretty much anything!

BATS

This is an ongoing project aimed at providing people without sight the same rich information and spatial awareness that sighted people get from exploring maps.

Dwell Click

Dwelling is resting the mouse over one area of the screen for a specified time. The dwell click software allows you to perform left-click, right-click and double clicks, and even drag things around the screen.

Edgeless

This application causes the mouse pointer to wrap around the screen instead of stopping at the edges.

EmacSpeak

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer.

FatBits

Fatbits magnifies an area of the screen and paints the giant pixels into a new window, which may be useful if you have a visual impairment. To make the screen even more accessible, you can modify the colours it displays.

FireFox

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Game Commander

Game Commander is a voice recognition program designed for games commands, but which can be used for general voice commands.

Grid Maker

An accessory for producing grids for use in EdWord and EdWeb. This can provide a list of words or symbols for the user to choose from when writing, as well as pictures, effects and web addresses.

IDAIR

An opensource platform independant daisy reader

iZoom

Redefine your computing experience with iZoom, a Professional Grade Screen Magnifier and Reader built into a single application. Magnify your screen anywhere from 1.5 to 16 times while having it read out to you, all ready with color/cursor enhancements and image smoothing. Additionally, iZoom is the only free professional grade magnifier that works across Remote Desktop Software such as Terminal Services/VNC.

Joystick 2 Mouse 3

Joystick 2 Mouse lets you control your mouse and keyboard using your joystick or gamepad.

JoyToKey

JoyToKey enables PC game controllers to mimic a mouse and the keyboard. It is a freeware utility which can be of great use to disabled users.

Jupiter

This software makes Linux accessible to the blind user.

KwikLoupe

A simple screen magnifier. Magnification ranges from 2x to 64x with a quick locate option to position the viewing window. The tool magnifies the area around the mouse pointer

Mouse Gestures

Use mouse gestures to control the Firefox web browser to allow 'mouse only' internet browsing.

Mouse Wrap

This software makes the mouse pointer circulate around the screen instead of stopping at the edges, therefore moving the pointer requires less movement by you. 'Movement pattern recognition' also gives you access to custom actions e.g. cut and paste.

MultiMail

MultiMail is an electronic mail (email) program that includes word prediction and gives you a range of interface and user options. MultiMail should improve email communication opportunities for Internet users with a disability. MultiMail was originally designed for Windows 3.x/95 so that consumers with older computer equipment could use this free product. A 32- bit version for Windows 95/98/2000 has now been implemented.

MultiWeb

MultiWeb is an Internet browser for Windows 3.x/95 aimed at improving access to the World Wide Web (WWW) for users with a disability.

No Squint

NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level.

NVDA

Non Visual Desktop Access

Open Eyes

openEyes is an open-source open-hardware toolkit for low-cost real-time eye tracking.

Open Mind Speech

The Open Mind Speech project is part of the Open Mind Initiative and aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools and applications, as well as collect speech data from "e-citizens" using the Internet.

PictureSlideShow

Picture Slide Show lets you continuously displays all the pictures in a folder. You can tell in which folder to look at and how long to display a picture for.

PointNClick Mouse

Point-N-Click is a FREE stand-alone on-screen virtual mouse designed for anyone with a disability that makes it difficult or impossible to click a physical computer mouse. As long as they can move a mouse, trackball or other pointing device, they can send mouse clicks to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window and even many that are full screen.

ReefChat

ReefChat is a free and open source accessible Ajax chat application.

Remote Commander

This allows one or more PDAs to be used as if they were the PC's cursor and keyboard.

RockBox

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for archos mp3 players. The firmware includes many enhancements on the standard version, including audio prompts for files which can be useful for people with problems with their vision.

Shoot

Shoot is a speech recognition program that translates your voice commands into arbitrary keystrokes.

Speakup

Speakup, written by Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan, is a screen review package for the Linux operating system.

Speegle

Provides voice output from 'Google' like web search engine

Sreader

A screen reader using software or hardware speech synthesizer.

SUITEKeys

SUITEKeys provides access to a virtual keyboard and mouse through continuous speech input on MS Windows platforms. See Overview for more information.

Symbol & Concept Coding Editor (aka SYMBERED)

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

Thunder Screen Reader

Thunder is free screenreader talking software for blind and visually impaired people.

TouchCD - Switch CD Player

A very simple switch controlled CD player

Virtual Magnifying Glass

Virtual Magnifying Glass is an easy-to-use screen magnification tool for Windows.

Vischeck

Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.

Web Access Gateway Software

This software intercepts web pages before they appear on your screen, making them easier to see if you are visually impaired.

WeMedia Talking Browser

A talking browser designed for vision- and learning-impaired Web surfers.

Whistling User Interface

Whistling-driven mouse pointer. An alternative way how to control your mouse pointer