Adaptive technology
From Dreamwidth Notes
Screenreaders
Product | OS | Notes |
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FireVox | Firefox addon | |
JAWS | Windows | No demonstration version available for testing, but the most widely used screen reader. |
nVDA | Windows | Open source. |
Orca | Linux/GNOME | |
SA to go | Windows | Free service. |
supernova | Windows | |
VoiceOver | Mac OSX | |
Window-Eyes | Windows | 30-minute timed demonstration available for testing. |
Speech-recognition
Product | OS | Notes |
---|---|---|
Dragon NaturallySpeaking | Windows | |
Dragon Dictate | Mac OSX | |
Windows Speech Recognition | Windows Vista/Windows 7 | Built into the OS. |
Other tools
Product | OS | Purpose |
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Firefox Accessibility Extension | Firefox addon | 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. |
Mouseless Browsing | Firefox addon | Adds numbers next to all links to make them keyboard accessible. |
Webvisum | Firefox addon | Makes 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. |
ZoomText | Windows | Blows up the text on the screen for people with limited vision. |