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Image of Lime Lighter Leggiero model mounted on the music rack of a piano and displaying magnified music as white notes on a black background on a grand staff.

Software designed to enable people with low vision read print music. 

Blue square with large white block letters in two rows.

An onscreen assistive keyboard for people with mild to moderate physical challenges and those with low vision.

Large rectangular monitor displaying a magnified puzzle with open magazine resting on the stand below it.

A foldable digital magnifier designed for seniors and elementary students that enables users to read documents, textbooks, and newspapers as well as to write down notes.

A screenshot of a menu page on a smartphone. The background is black, with "CO" in bold, white letters.

Corvus is a program that makes it easier for the blind and the visually impaired to use an Android smartphone. It is installed on a phone and resembles a shell over standard programs, with built-in speech and magnification and easy menu navigation.

Screenshots of a messaging app with the keyboard at the bottom of the screen and the typed message above. The typed messages are in large-font, purple font.

Mobile app designed to make communication easier.

Various models of digital indicators. They resemble small, round electronic devices with LCD digital display panels and small menu buttons on the front. They have small, thin probes resembling drill bits running down the center of the devices. One device is dark grey; one is green; one is grey and black; and a fourth is white and black.

Digital indicators are measuring tools that allow users to capture highly accurate measurements of small distances or the thickness of an object.

A graphics logo with the word "e book" in black font and a simple, black illustration of an e-reader. The letter "e" is written over the screen of the e-reader illustration. There is a bright yellow circle in the background of the graphic.

A digital book that can be virtually downloaded and features accessibility options such as font size adjustment, contrast adjustment, and audio read-aloud, for example. E-books are typically downloaded to e-readers, but depending on their file format, users may also read them on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Medium-sized tablet devices with digital book pages. They are roughly the size of a standard paperback book. Three have black borders, while one is a white device. One of the e-readers is shown with a stylus. The e-readers do not have color screens like standard tablets but are black and white and more opaque than a tablet.

Allows users to read and purchase digital books, newspapers, and magazines, while also eliminating the need to flip a page or physically hold a book. E-readers also typically allow users to change font size, increase the contrast, and modify how many lines of text fill a page.

Screenshot of three desktops with different screen resolutions, each one larger and more "zoomed in."

Sometimes the default resolution of a display features text that is too small for an individual to read comfortably or icons that are too small to discern. Most operating systems allow the device to emulate a lower (but not higher) resolution, producing larger-sized, easier-to-see graphics.