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Read Aloud

Alternative Vocabulary 1: 
text, software, image, scanned
Alternative Vocabulary 2: 
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Alternative Vocabulary 3: 
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Alternative Vocabulary 4: 
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Alternative Vocabulary 5: 
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Black handheld device the size and shape of a mobile phone with control and number buttons on the front and a camera on the back.

Blaze digital audio players are portable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) multi-media devices suitable for blind and visually impaired consumers. They can play digital books, music files, document files, Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) content, and FM radio. It can also scan and recognize printed text and text image files with a built-in five-megapixel camera and OCR software.

Blue and white typewriter-like machine with braille keyboard and typing display screen.

The SMART Brailler enables multi-sensory learning through visual, tactile, and auditory feedback. It allows users to edit, save, and transfer brailled documents to digital text files via USB to read the document on a computer.

A screenshot of GhostReader showing how it works on an Apple device.

GhostReader is a fully customizable Text to Speech app that allows the user to listen to written text on the Mac.

A usb drive with "SPIKA" written on side.

A thumb-drive based text reader.

A free standing arm with a camera on the end which is placed above a document.

A reading machine that includes a flat positioning mat to guide blind users where to place the document they want to read. 

An animated parrot reading text that is converted to speech.

Microsoft Agent is a free desktop/web technology for Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista featuring animated characters that support text-to-speech (TTS) in 11 different languages.

A fixed camera bed extends high over image to capture all of the large surface areas beneath it. 

A software and camera solution that makes the printed text accessible to people who are visually impaired, including books, magazines, business documents and more. 

WebAnywhere browser frame and content frame.

A web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. Visit wa.cs.washington.edu to access WebAnywhere directly.

Stylized image of a yellow mailbox with the door opened and the red flag up.

QualiMAIL is an email application that allows the user to manage email correspondence without needing a physical keyboard or a mouse.

Orange laptop graphic with the display showing a webpage, with a pair of orange headphones next to the keyboard a little green figure standing on the keyboard.

Support software that adds speech, reading, and translation to websites to facilitate access and participation for people with dyslexia, low literacy, English as a Second Language, and those with mild visual impairments.