Adaptive technology

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Screenreaders

  • JAWS(Windows, no demonstration version available for testing but the most widely used screen reader)
  • Window-Eyes (Windows, 30 minute timed demonstration available for testing)
  • VoiceOver (MacOS X)
  • FireVox (extension for Firefox)
  • nVDA (open source, Windows)
  • Orca (Linux/GNOME)
  • supernova (Windows)
  • SA to go (Windows, free service)

Speech-recognition

  • Dragon NaturallySpeaking Windows speech recognition
  • MacSpeech Dictate OS X speech recognition
  • Windows Vista built-in speech recognition

Other tools

  • ZoomText: a Windows application that blows up the text on the screen for people with limited vision
  • Webvisum: a Firefox add-on which make Firefox more fully functioned for people using screen readers. Automated captcha solving, OCR character recognition of image-only text links so they can be read aloud, and the ability for end-users to label unlabel fields for later read aloud.
  • Mouseless Browsing: a Firefox extension which adds numbers next to all links to make them keyboard accessible
  • Firefox Accessibility Extension: although very useful for developers, this is also useful for people using adaptive technology, and to give them greater control over what Firefox offers in terms of access keys, etc.