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Entertainment and Play

Systems to allow participation in various forms of entertainment and play.

Memoria

A game screenshot of 4 rows of cartoon illustrations of a detective with a magnifying glass. The caption reads, "A gameboard you can feel."

A free and fully accessible board game, which is inclusively designed for both sighted and visually-impaired users. 

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ObjectiveEd Games

OED Barnyard.

Games for blind and visually impaired students to practice Expanded Core Curriculum skills and that works with VoiceOver.

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Game World: Play With Friends

An iPhone with a colorful screen divided into a 2x4 grid with a light blue header and a thick white label titled " Game Room". A gold coin is shown with a +sign and a shopping basket. The grid shows the titles of eight games.

An app for social gaming that is fully accessible so the sighted and visually impaired can compete on a level playing field. It has eight fun games, chat functionality, and 100% voiceover accessibility.

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Blindfold Games Series

A simple white outline of drawn headphones on a black background with the words "audio game" written in white underneath them.

Accessible games for the visually impaired community.

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Talking Tuner

Screenshot of autospeak option and a button that reads "Say Last Pitch."

A hands-off, sound-activated, talking musical instrument tuner. It uses speech synthesis to talk and tell the users if a sound is in tune or not.

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V Browser

TTS Settings screen, with text that reads "Please wait while we search for all available languages and voices..."

A browser for individuals who have low vision or reading disabilities. It adds Text-To-Speech functionality to a normal web browser, allowing more freedom for mobile web navigation.

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Zikfire

A screenshot of a computer screen that has two graphs of sound waves. There are menu buttons at the top and the usual play, record, fast forward buttons at the bottom.

Audio editing software to export and/or convert songs into mp3 format, designed for use by the visually impaired.

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TVSpeak

Information on a television program, including the name, date, start time, duration, category, and description.

A multimedia software that provides access to the most common features of DTT on a computer. It also allows users to play standard multimedia files.

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Portanum

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). 

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SmartReader HD

A rectangular-shaped device in portrait orientation with an optical arm extending over a paper. The base of the device has large buttons on it. Next to it is a remote with a cord and large buttons at each corner and a large wheel on its top middle.

A portable reading machine that has voice playback easily for users with low vision or blindness by pushing one button. A remote / console and a 13" screen that allows enlarged reading can both be purchased separately to make access even easier.

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