Apps & Software

The goal of this entire site is to help individuals identify tools and techniques that will assist them as they create and use accessible materials. This page is sort of an overview page. It contains links to:

  • resources for finding apps, software, and other tools that aren't specific to any other part of this site

  • information about accessibility for specific companies

  • some left-over categories that don't fit anywhere else on this page!

Also see Equipment and Operating Systems

Also see Accessibility Checklists

General Resources and Best Of... Lists

  • App Finder [Georgia Tools for Life] http://www.gatfl.org/favorite-search.php

  • Teachers with Apps category: "Special Needs” http://teacherswithapps.com/category/special-needs/

  • Apps for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities [Disability Help at University of Michigan] http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/tools/apps

  • Bridging Apps [Easter Seals Greater Houston] http://bridgingapps.org/

  • iAutism: iPad, iPhone, Android... for Autism and Special Needs http://www.iautism.info/en

  • Special Needs APPS [Fiendship Circle] http://www.friendshipcircle.org/apps/

  • Free or Low Cost Apps and Programs for Accessibility [Brown University] https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/accessibility-services/free-or-low-cost-apps-and-programs-accessibility

  • 7 Apps to Use as Assistive Technology https://www.specialeducationguide.com/pre-k-12/tools-and-research/7-apps-to-use-as-assistive-technology/

Accessibility Features in...

The following links take you to a new page on this site.

... Google products

... Adobe products

... Microsoft products

... Social Media

... Web Conferencing

    • Accessibility Guide for Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing V 12.5 http://www.adaconferences.org/Accessibility/

Note-taking and Study Skills

General Notes/Study Information and Best of... Lists

  • 10 best note taking apps for Android http://www.androidauthority.com/best-note-taking-apps-for-android-205356/

Specific Tools

  • Google Keep

    • 7 Reasons to Use Google Keep As Your Note Taking Tool http://www.guidingtech.com/32221/reasons-to-use-google-keep/

    • Google Keep Help https://support.google.com/keep/topic/3316156?p=notes_main&rd=1

Voice Recorders

There are many models of digital voice recording devices, but there are also many, many apps available for your smart phone. The technology is always improving because many of these products and tools were designed for businesses.

  • The 10 Best Voice Recorders (May 2016) http://www.comparaboo.com/best-voice-recorders?

Other Miscellaneous Topics

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Resources to Explore Further

New links that I find but have not yet looked at closely enough to add to my lists.

eSSENTIAL Accessibility app is a "communications support that allows users to navigate the web hands free". http://www.essentialaccessibility.com/how-it-works

- Onscreen keyboard: Instead of using a physical keyboard to enter text in a web page, you might prefer to use your mouse instead. The on-screen keyboard offers convenience keys labeled "www." and ".com" that you can use to reduce the number of mouse clicks you need to make.

- Page reader: You can have the app read aloud the text on a web page. It can read aloud any text, button captions, website texts, links, tags, and other elements that contain text that isn't embedded in graphics.

- Manual scan

- Auto scan

- XY mouse: Every point on a web page sits at a certain latitude and longitude, much like a point on a map. The app can navigate to each spot on a map by first moving to the correct latitude and then the correct longitude.

- Direction mouse: Using the directional mouse, you can move the mouse in one of eight directions and click it, all using only the left click button on your mouse.

- Radar mouse: This mouse alternative "sweeps" the eSSENTIAL Accessibilityô window much like the line on an airport radar screen. Airport radar displays typically "anchor" their lines in the center of the screen. The apps radar mouse offers that option, as well as that of anchoring the line at the top left corner of the screen.

- Customizable toolbar

- Multi-language

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[Andrew Downie]GW Micro has merged with AI Squared, so AI Squared is now the name of the company

[Andrew Downie]I strongly recommend NVDA - very comparable with JAWS and Window-Eyes

[Andrew Downie]I am using NVDA right now

[Carolyn Phillips & John Rempel - AMAC]Yes - Andrew! We are exctied about that merger and that Window-Eyes is free to Microsoft Office users starting with Office 2010!

[marnie.williams@il

e.gatech.edu]Thank you!

AIM Explorer http://aem.cast.org/navigating/aim-explorer.html#.VxD9kzAwgdU

“The AIM Explorer is a free simulation that combines grade-leveled digital text with access features common to most text readers and other supported reading software. Magnification, custom text and background colors, text-to-speech (synthetic and human), text highlighting, and layout options are presented in a logical sequence to help struggling readers decide which of these supports might help them to access and understand text.” Installs on PC and Mac. You can also explore without an account. (See the instructions document.)

(Chrome app) Speak It https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speakit/pgeolalilifpodheeocdmbhehgnkkbak?hl=en-US “SpeakIt reads selected text using Text-to-Speech technology with language auto-detection. It can read text in more than 50 languages.”

(... Facebook)