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Access to Education

Accessibility tools for the classroom or homework.
Text "Lexima" written in blue and orange letters.

A mobile software with text recognition and text-to-speech that can read text from paper. Useful for the blind and the illiterate.

Three screenshots of the Dutch Sign Language program featuring the home screen, Gesture Quiz, and sample DSL gesture video.

A collection of sign language gestural videos developed especially for the deaf and hard-of-hearing users. With this technology, gestures can be quickly looked up and clearly demonstrated.

OpenDisc

The OpenEducationDisc focuses solely on meeting educational needs of students of all ages.  Software has been chosen to address specific IT needs across a wide range of subject areas.

User with phone in hand utilizing text-to-speech capability.

A Firefox extension that provides text-to-speech functionality using Microsoft Win32 Speech API (SAPI). With FoxyVoice users can do tuning of their browser and they can listen to the page being read or browse on one page and listen to another page being read for a higher degree of sensory overload. 

A small box-shaped device with a small display panel, four simple buttons, and a large knob dial.

A multi-media device designed for people with a visual or reading impairment to enable them to access audio information and entertainment, including content available on the Internet, without using a computer.

Jupiter

Jupiter Speech System is a screen reader for Linux in console mode. It is a speech adapter, running in user space, based on the acsint / acsbridge system. It is modeled after the Jupiter speech adapter that use to live in the kernel.

Sayz Me setting menu.

A text-to speech software assembled in Python that is freely distributed under a BSD license. Users can write a text or copy any text to the clipboard and hear the text spoken through the program. 

Menu titled "Activation: Targeting Level 1: Shapes & Objects" and features choices for colors and various activities represented by thumbnails of shapes.

A suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. 

a search browser screen with virtual keyboard underneath search bar

RapidKey provides you with a new Windows functionality. This software autocompletes text phrases and autoexpands shorthands in any Windows applications. 

Screenshot of a split screen, on the left side there is a list of article titles and one of them is highlighted and on the right side, appears the full text of the highlighted article.

A free program designed for blind and visually-impaired people that makes RSS feeds accessible.