Reading Assistance

Various approaches to converting printed text to an understandable form.

Moon+ Reader Pro

An Android app with powerful controls & full functions for users who have difficulties with handling and reading physical books.

Oxford Dictionary of English

Dictionary iOS app with audio pronunciations.

Orato

A text to speech software. Copy text to a clipboard to have it read out to you in a separate viewing pane with customiseable fonts, colours and word tracking.

WordTalk

A free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with versions of Microsoft Word from Word 97 up to Word 2016. It speaks the text of the document and highlights it as it speaks.

Virtual Magnifying Glass

A free, open-source, screen magnifier, for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

Thunder-RJ ScreenReader-on-a-Stick

Small device in the shape of a flash drive with a lid, accompanying in-ear headphones, and usb cable.

A portable and simple screenreader that is tailored for blind persons and LD/early readers that may be new to using a computer.

The Magnifier

Screenshot of a text document featuring a section of the document magnified in a circle.

A full screen magnifying software for Windows.

Fatbits

Pixelated tall rectangular image of a hand holding a magnifying glass with grid locations on the bottom.

Free screen magnification software for older versions of Windows that magnifies an area of the screen and paints the giant pixels into a new window.

eSpeak

A compact open source text to speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.

A text to speech app for compatible Android devices. It can read ePub Books, and text, or HTML files (by converting webpage articles to text). Also, it can read text copied from any application using a read clipboard feature available through the notification/status bar.