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Entertainment and Play

Systems to allow participation in various forms of entertainment and play.
Screen shot of a pictogram image selection menu showing a 3x2 grid of symbols.

An augmentative and alternative communications (AAC) app that enables people with communication difficulties to express their needs and desires to those around them.

Screenshot of the Lightning Express toolbar in a Windows operating system.

A magnification software package for the PC. Whatever appears on the computer screen can be magnified up to 6 times.

WordRead software box, which is black with a blue "wave" graphic.

Text-to-speech and screen reader software.

A page from Just Gesture's software featuring a mouse and a list of commands for gesture assignment.

Software that allows users to create mouse gestures with user-defined actions; users can use mouse movements and click combinations. Just Gestures will recognize gestures and invoke the appropriate actions.

Laptop with smaller window with magnification of text.

MagniLink iMax provides magnification, contour enhancement, and pointer settings as well as screenreading with high-quality speech output.

Dark blue ship steering wheel with two sound waves on the upper right and Snap&Read written across the bottom.

Reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from websites, images, photographs, PDFs, web-based tests, and other media. 

Look2learn with phrase "I want Apple" and a button to select an image.

An AAC app with preloaded photos and vocal output. The user's voice can also be added to the pictures.

A black background divided in half by a white line and 6 Braille dots in the middle of the screen.

An app that allows users to write in Braille on their iPhone. 

MagniLink Read software

MagniLink Read (MLREAD) is a program used in conjunction with a flatbed scanner or a camera scanner to scan an image and convert it into speech using an OCR unit. The text is then converted to speech using a text-to-speech engine.

iPad displaying the alphabet in a grid.

SoundingBoard allows you to use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod to create custom boards with up to 20 message locations using AbleNet symbols or your own photos.