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Accessible BBC Listen Again

The British Broadcast Company (BBC) allows people to listen to vast quantities of their radio output up to a week after it is first broadcast on one of their dozens of radio stations. This service, called Listen Again, relies on a web browser interface that might be difficult for some users, especially people with screen readers. Accessible BBC Listen Again allows you to access the BBC's Listen Again content through a truly accessible interface designed to work with any screen reader.

Accessible Radio

Accessible Radio is a way to listen to radio stations on the internet that is easy and simple to use and is designed to work with any screen reader.

Accessible RSS

Interested in keeping up with the headlines and newspapers? A new technology called RSS has recently taken the Internet by storm. Websites provide "feeds" of their latest stories and headlines, and you can get these simple lists, updated every few minutes. Accessible RSS is an accessible application that lets you access these RSS feeds.

Accessible Web Directory

This simple program lets you explore the DMOZ web directory, a catalogue of good websites.

AccessiblePodcatcher

AccessiblePodcatcher (formerly AccessiblePodcaster) is a simple way for blind and screen reader users to use podcasts.

Audio Enriched Links

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

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.

Daisy Pipeline

The Daisy Multi Format Converter allows conversion of DAISY books between different formats.

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.

Fire Vox

Fire Vox is an open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser.

Gnopernicus

The Gnopernicus project aims to enable users with limited vision, or no vision, to use the Gnome 2 desktop and Gnome/GTK+-2 applications effectively.

HELP Read

HELP Read™ is FREE software that reads along with you while you do the reading. Whether you’re younger or older, new to reading or have your own library, HELP Read™ should be able to help you read more and understand more of what you read.

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.

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

MAGpie

MAGpie 2.01 is a tool for creating closed captions and audio (video) descriptions. Authors can add captions and audio descriptions to QuickTime, Real, or Windows Media Player.

Microsoft Reader

Microsoft Reader is used to view certain eBooks on your computer. An additional piece of software, 'Microsoft Reader Text-to-Speech Package' can be downloaded in order to speak your eBooks to you, giving you access to all manner of novels and non-fiction eBooks without the need to read them from the screen.

No Squint

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

NVDA

Non Visual Desktop Access

Orca

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.

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.

RapidSet

Allows quick and easy changing of the background and font colours, without having to go through the Screen Properties dialogs.

ReadPlease

Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software.

ReefChat

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

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.

Sayz Me

Sayz Me is a free text-to-speech reader for Windows. Text is typed in or copied from the clipboard and then read aloud.

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.

T-Bar 2

This is a very simple reading helper. It allows the user to vary the overlay colour, opacity of the colour, line position and width.

Thunder Screen Reader

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

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.

Vu-Bar 4

A unique piece of software, provides an on-screen, slotted ruler.

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.

WebbIE

WebbIE makes surfing the Internet easy. It lets you read web pages as simple text, and navigate them with the arrow keys. You can easily fill in forms, hear a summary of page content and list the links, and copy and paste web page information to your own computer.

WeMedia Talking Browser

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

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

WordTalk

WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively.