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Vision

Making content bigger, brighter, or otherwise accessible to the student.
A woman painting while wearing glasses with a white panel across the lenses.

An assistive device that enhances the functional vision of a person who has low vision. It helps users see what's in front of them in real-time, including painting, traveling, and watching TV. 

A black smartphone with tactile gridlines over the surface.

Devices that include a special tactile grid that enables the user to feel what is on the screen. Using a combination of vibration, sound, and visual information the user can start to become digitally sighted. The tactile grid is a transparent embossed grid of dots laid over the smart devices screen which with the specialized technology enables the user to feel the digital world.

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.

Black glasses with dark tinted lenses and a cord protruding from the end of the stem that leads to a small rectangular device with menu options on the side.

Smart glasses that clear images directly onto the retina so users can see both the image and the background. The glasses are suitable for those with low vision and can be used for sports, live concerts, GPS navigation, and clear vision with free-focus. 

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

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

Large, yellow rectangular software box with screen shot of MAGic software menu on cover.

A screen magnification and screen reading program for low vision computer users.

Nutrition facts and ingredients of a food product magnified on a phone screen.

An app with a built-in flashlight/torch. It reads tiny print and can be used at restaurants, movie theaters, or anywhere else with low light.

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 large text box with menu buttons on the first left column under a drawn female's head. There are buttons labeled "read a text" and "Stop speaking", an eraser button, A large font next to a small font, a camera button, a save to disk, and a green copy speak button.

A voice playback software that will read aloud immediately text that is entered or copied using SAPI 5 speech synthesis.