Visually Impaired Aids

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Audio formatting --a technique pioneered by AsTeR-- and full support for W3Cs Aural CSS (ACSS) allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural presentations of electronic...

BLBARC is a software aimed to help visually impaired people to find objects from their barcode : they just need a barcode reader and a speech synthesis.

Magnifying Glass Free is a flexible screen zooming utility that magnifies portions of the screen under your mouse cursor or caret. A magnifier is useful to designers, engineers, visually impaired users, PC-to-TV connections, multi-monitor systems. This powerful screen magnifier contains a unique...


Platforms: Windows

AureoEyes is a free virtual keyboard that has been specially developed for visually impaired and blind people. AureoEyes makes it easier for those people to write texts using just a computer with a sound card. AureoEyes has a very fast learning curve and can be used by almost anyone without a...


Platforms: Windows

Help Me Write was developed for the visually impaired. Users can prepare text using large (up to 144 font size) colorful (black, red and blue) letters and hear the words “spoken” as they are typed. Users can use buttons to “hear” all text, text from the cursor to end, selected text, etc....


Platforms: Mac

Quoth The Twitter is a simple Adobe AIR application that aims to be accessible to visually impaired users. It can be developed into a full-featured, accessible Twitter client, and/or can serve as a good demo for design practices such as adjustable font sizes, high contrast mode, keyboard...


Platforms: Mac

The Braille Writing Tutor, a project of TechBridgeWorld research group at Carnegie Mellon University, is a simple and inexpensive device that provides braille writing practice for the visually impaired. Hardware specifications and software included.


Platforms: *nix

Freedaisy is a free implementation of Daisy book standard used to index MP3 files using XHTML and SMIL. Daisy is very used by visually impaired users, so they can listen a book with chapter in MP3.The code could be ported to other operating systems.


Platforms: PHP

Theme Font & Size Changer is a simple browser tool that lets you change the font size and font family of Firefox. It is especially valuable tool for visually impaired people and wide screen users.


Platforms: *nix

Theme Font & Size Changer is a simple browser tool that lets you change the font size and font family of Firefox. It is especially valuable tool for visually impaired people and wide screen users.


Platforms: *nix

speechd-el is an Emacs client to Speech Dispatcher, BrlTTY, and other alternative output devices. speechd-el provides a complex speech/Braille interface to Emacs, and is focused especially on (but not limited to) blind and visually impaired users. It allows the user to work with Emacs without...


Platforms: *nix

Freedaisy is a free implementation of Daisy book standard for allowing MP3 files to be indexed using (X)HTML and SMIL. Daisy is frequently used by visually impaired users, so they can listen to audio books with chapters..


Platforms: *nix

PyPlet is a very simple IRC bot who speaks ! You can use PyPlet in learning environments, to help visually impaired people, or just for fun. Please tell us what you do with it. PyPlet can be interfaced with ANY Text To Speech engine. Two scripts are provided as examples on how to interface PyPlet...


Platforms: *nix

IBM Workplace Forms PureEdge Viewer for Macintosh...IBM has provided Special Edition Mac Viewers for PPC and Intel that are now available for download. The PureEdge Viewer is a small, free program which will allow you to access, complete and submit applications electronically and securely on...


Platforms: Mac

ZoomMagic is a powerful tool to magnify any portion of your screen, measure distances or capture a screen area. Targeted users are: designers and developers on the hunt for those lost pixels .. or in the need for a fast screencapture, users with visual impairments or anybody who needs to find the...


Platforms: Windows

Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader is a handy and easy-to-use tool for automatically reading your documents out loud. This can be a great utility for proof reading because hearing your text out loud helps you spot all mistakes. This program can also be used for reading e-books. Why strain your eyes...


Platforms: Windows

Atlence Resistor Viewer allows electronics engineers to get the value and characteristics of a resistor from its color bands and vice versa. It can also be used to learn the resistor color code with the lesson and quiz included. Get the band colors of a resistor and the standard values...


Platforms: Windows, Android

G-Cows is a software project consisting in: - definition of a scripting language designed for creation of web sites; - interpreter for the scripting language (Cows); - a makefile generator (Cows-mkgen).  Cows is the interpreter for the Cows scripting language, used to parse HTML files...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD

Freedaisy is a free implementation of Daisy book standard used to index MP3 files using XHTML and SMIL. Daisy is very used by visually impaired users, so they can listen a book with chapter in MP3. The code could be ported to other operating systems.


Platforms: *nix, PHP,

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Platforms: PHP