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Access to Reading

Accommodations for access to books, newspapers, and magazines.
A hand holding a black video magnifier that has 4 lines of black text on a yellow background.

Video magnifiers that are suitable for people who need help to read a text and browse details because of low vision. They can be used to read labels, prescriptions, bills, maps, schedules, price tags, receipts, menus, and other items.

A Z-shaped blue document reader above a book, the page of which is projected onto a laptop.

Readers that capture images of materials such as documents, textbooks, artwork, devices, and 3D objects.

A gray rectangular device with a speaker at the top and menu options below, including radio, microphone, flashlight, playback speed control, and other options.

A device for listening to the Bible, Bible studies, sermons, music, educational content, humanitarian content, and more. Users can use as their own personal audio Bible, purchase to distribute on mission trips or learn and share a new song, Bible story or verse.

An article's heading highlighted in yellow, below it there is a text and a picture below the text with menu options to pause, play, page up and down, and move forward and back. 

A DAISY player application (app) that works on smartphones and tablets, customized for use by the visually impaired and other print disabled. 

A gray rectangular device featuring a newspaper magnified on the screen.

Portable handheld and pocket video magnifiers with smart ergonomics for ease of use.

The Voices & Languages page, which features voices such as a British male, a child, a U.S. female, and other voices, with languages below. 

An intelligent text-to-speech audio-reader that turns reading material into interactive audiobooks so that users can save time, retain more information, and stay focused. Speechify can read books, documents, and articles while users cook, work out, commute, or any other activity.

A closeup of a bee on a flower.

An app that helps users read small prints at near distances and signs at far distances. Users can place a phone camera close to small objects or use the app as a microscope. 

Two computer screens side-by-side with the same pop-up menu on each. The menu on the first screen has a large blue circle over the buttons. The second menu shows the circle as clear but the buttons under it are magnified and easily read.

Software used as an adaptable aid to improve the pointing accuracy of the user by increasing the screen size under the cursor to a scale from 20 to 128.

The text Portanum written in two colors and on one and a half lines: Porta is printed in green; then without space, the letters N and u follow and are written in light purple. The final letter m drops down to the next half-line and is written there, in white,  inside a light-purple triangle. Written in small letters on the same line and preceding the triangle-m in French: Software help for vision.

A vision aid software designed to help the reading of distant documents (charts or video projection screen). 

A man is sitting at a desk with his left hand on the bottom edge of a paper and his right on a keyboard that is sitting on top of a braille display. The paper is under a camera for OCR.

A text recognition software that uses a scanner to have text documents read aloud. iRead is optimized for use with screen readers such as ZoomText, SuperNova, Jaws, etc.