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ACollab

ACollab is an accessible, open source, multi-group, Web-based collaborative work environment. Group member, group administrator, and system administrator tools are all compliant with international accessibility standards (WCAG 1.0, Section 508 US) so people with disabilities can participate fully in collaborative and administrative activities.

AutoTextTyper

AutoTextTyper is a contextual menu plugin that lets you quickly and easily add commonly used text, such as email addresses, web sites, postal addresses, etc... You can then select any of those items from the menu and have them automatically typed into any application that supports contextual menus.

CCHotKey

Mac OSX CCHotKey is a small and simple application that launches any script you want after clicking any hotkey you want.

Click-Catch

Click-Catch(C) is an autoclicker. It means it simulates mouse clicks with constant intervals of time.

Click-N-Type virtual keyboard

Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard, giving access to the keyboard characters through the use of your mouse or other pointing device.

Dasher

Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures.

Dkey

Dkey is disambiguation software for computers - it works in a similar way to 'predictive text' on your mobile phone. It is designed to allow quicker text input for people with physical disabilities who can use a keyboard with a small number of keys, for example a number pad keyboard. It can also be used with mouse input, or with switch input via other software. It is designed with people with disabilities in mind, but could be used by anyone.

DonnerLaParole

DonnerLaParole is a primarily text based communicator for people with speech and physical impairments - including word prediction, text-to-speech support etc. Best support for French - cross-platform Java application.

DSpeech

This is a TTS (Text To Speech) program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user.

EdgeWrite

Provides text entry to hand held devices for people who find writing difficult.

EdWord and EdWeb

EdWord is a talking word processor that allows you to combine text with symbols. EdWeb is a talking web browser that can display web pages as a combination of text and symbols.

Gaze Talk

GazeTalk is a predictive text entry system that has a restricted on-screen keyboard with ambiguous layout for severely disabled people. The main reason for using such a keyboard layout is that it enables the use of an eye tracker with a low spatial resolution (e.g., a web-camera based eye tracker).

GOK

gok: gnome onscreen keyboard, an open source project.

KeyCounter

This package counts the number of key depressions, and can be set to suggest breaks are taken after a set number are carried out.

Morseall

Morseall allows you to control your computer using only the mouse buttons. It allows you to produce keystrokes by tapping Morse codes with just a single button or with a three-button mouse for faster entry.

MyFTC

My Freedom To Communicate (MyFTC) is Assistive Technology (AT) software that uses text-to-speech technology to enable nonverbal individuals to communicate easily in real life situations.

Plaphoons

Plaphoons is one of the many valuable results from the Catalan Fressa project, made available under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence. It is a comprehensive tool for alternative access and AAC. Versions are available for MS Window (95 - 7), Java (GPL license) and recently for Android. Most information still only available in Catalan and Spanish.

Qwriting

Based on Ken Perlin's Quikwriting, this is a novel on-screen keyboard that works on mouse gestures. Moving your mouse in gestures across the Qwriting window turns the gestures into letters. This can be a very efficient way of typing for people who can only use a mouse and don't want to move the mouse much...

RapidKeys

RapidKeys - Intelligent virtual keyboard. Itis a virtual keyboard with word prediction that learns from what the user types and contextually suggests words that can be typed with a single click. The purpose of this feature is to obtain a greater speed of typing.

Remote Commander

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

SAW Resources

These resources are in continual development and will be updated from time to time. All contributions of new selection sets for SAW with be gratefully received.

ShortKeys Lite

Shortkeys Lite is a freeware "lite" version of the closed source ShortKeys text-completion program - it will allow you to use shorthand to type pre-defined text.

Special Access To Windows

Free software that enables Windows to be controlled by one or two switches, a trackerball or a headpointer. A new SAW 6 version - supported by the AEGIS project - is now available adding many feautures to make creating interfaces easy for those who use alternative inputs.

Speech Dasher

Speech Dasher is a novel interface for the input of text using a combination of speech and gestures. A speech recognizer provides the initial guess of the user's desired text while a gesture-based interface allows the user to confirm and correct the recognizer's output.

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).

WindowCatcher

A utility that searches any user interface in Windows XP or Vista for MSAA and UIAutomation information and makes this available to assistive technology interfaces. Microsoft .NET 3.0 framework must be installed before installing WindowCatcher. This can be downloaded free from the Microsoft website, or a CD with a full installer can be obtained from the ACE Centre

WordAid

WordAid is a lexical word listing program (as opposed to a word predictor) with text-to-speech support that can aid the development of literacy.