Confused by the terminology? You may want to look at EASI's online handbook regarding assistive technology terms and devices.
Many assistive products are manufactured by one company but distributed and supported by another. Hence, products of this nature are listed below with links for just one of its many distributors. There is no implied endorsement of one distributor over another. Research the distributors that carry the product you're interested in and choose accordingly!
Debbie Day's site now has a Buy, Sell, Trade, or Donate page dedicated to helping people exchange assistive technology and products with each other. Check it out!
Adaptive Keyboards & Mice
- BAT Personal Keyboard,by Infogrip
- No-Hands Mouse, by Hunter Digital
Braille Embossers / Printers
- Basic-D Double-sided printer, by American Thermoform
- Braille Blazer, by Blazie Engineering
- Braille Book-Maker, by Enabling Technologies
- Braille printers and embossers, by American Thermoform
- ET Embosser, by Enabling Technologies
- Everest-D Double-sided printer, by American Thermoform
- JULIET Brailler, by Enabling Technologies
- Mountbatten Brailler, by Quantum Technology
- Ohtsuki print and braille printer, by American Thermoform
- Romeo Braille Printer, by Enabling Technologies
- Thomas Brailler, by Enabling Technologies
- VersaPoint, by Blazie Engineering
Braille Music Translation Software
- GOODFEEL (for DOS), by Dancing Dots (demo available for download)
Braille Paper
Braille Laminate, Embossables, Binding Supplies, etc.
Cursor Enlargers
- Biggy (for the Macintosh), by R. J. Cooper
CCTV
- Aladdin, by Telesensory Corporation
- ClearView, by Humanware
Graphing Calculators / Programs
- ET graph X, by Blazie Engineering
- Graph-It, by Blazie Engineering
Internet Software (Web Browsers appear in their own category)
- Simply Internet (E-mail, Telnet and Winsock), by Econonet International
Note Takers
- Aria Braille Palmtop, by Robotron
- BrailleDesk 2000, by Artic Technologies
- BrailleMate, by Blazie Engineering
- Braille 'N Speak, by Blazie Engineering
- Eureka, by Robotron
- Magnum, by VisuAide / Arkenstone
- Mountbatten Brailler, by Quantum Technology
- TransType 2000, by Artic Technologies
- Type 'N Speak, by Blazie Engineering
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Software
Refreshable Braille Displays
- Braille Lite, by Blazie Engineering
- PowerBraille 40, 65, 80, by Blazie Engineering
- TeleBraille III, by Blazie Engineering
Scanners / Reading Systems
- ezVIP, by JBliss Imaging Systems
- Galileo, by Robotron
- OsCaR, by Blazie Engineering
- OVAC, by Okay Vision-Aide Corporation
- Domino Portable Reading System, by Telesensory Corporation
- Kurzweil 1000, by Lernout & Hauspie (demo available for download)
- Kurzweil 3000, by Lernout & Hauspie
- Cicero Text Reader, by Dolphin Computer Access
- MousCam 200, by Vision Technology
- Passport, by Optelec
- Rainbow, by Robotron
- Spectrum, by Optelec
- VIPinfoSoft, by JBliss Imaging Systems (demo available for download)
- VisAbility, by Ai Squared (demo available for download)
Screen Magnifiers / Large Print
- inLARGE, by Alva Access Group (demo available for download)
- LP Windows, by Optelec
- Lunar Lite, a freeware screen magnification program for Windows 3.1, by Dolphin Computer Access. (full version available for download)
- Lunar and Lunar Plus, by Dolphin Computer Access. (demo available for download)
- Magnum, by Artic Technologies (demo available for download)
- Screen Magnifier/2 for OS/2, by IBM
- Supernova Reader Magnifier, by Dolphin Computer Access (demo available for download)
- Super Vista, by Telesensory Corporation
- Window Bridge 2000, by Syntha-voice (demo available for download)
- ZoomText and ZoomText Xtra, by Ai Squared (demo available for download)
Screen Readers
FYI, The Empowerment Zone has a compilation of articles, published between 1995 and 1997, that evaluate and compare screen readers for Windows.
- ASAP (Automatic Screen Access Program), by MicroTalk (demo available for download)
- ASAW (Automatic Screen Access for Windows), by MicroTalk (call (903) 832-3471 to receive a free demo disk)
- Emacspeak for Unix, by T.V. Raman
- Hal Lite, a freeware screen reader for DOS, by Dolphin Computer Access (full version available for download)
- Hal, by Dolphin Computer Access (demo available for download)
- JAWS (Job Access With Speech) for DOS and Windows, by Henter-Joyce (timed evaluation copy available for download)
- Learn2 for Windows (with support for English, German, Italian, French and Spanish), by JTS Micro Consulting
- OutSpoken, by Alva Access Group (fully-working copy available for download until October 1, 1997.)
- JTS Reader for Windows, by JTS Micro Consulting (shareware demo available for download)
- ReadToMe, from the Hawaii Literacy Project
- Screen Reader/2 for OS/2 and DOS, by IBM
- ScreenPower, by Blazie Engineering
- Simply Talker, by Econonet International
- Talking Keys for the Macintosh, by Graham Software
- textHelp, by Lorien Systems (on-line demo available)
- Vocal-Eyes, by GW Micro
- Window Bridge 2000, by Syntha-voice (demo available for download)
- Window-Eyes, by GW Micro (demo available for download)
- Windows Master, by Blazie Engineering
- WinVision, by Artic Technologies (demo available for download)
Tactile Image Generation/Enhancement
- EZ-Form, by American Thermoform
- Flexi-Paper, by Repro-Tronics
- LowRez, by KanSys (shareware, with free registration and download)
- Maxi-Form, by American Thermoform
- Nomad Mentor, by Quantum Technology
- piaf, by Quantum Technology
- Picture Braille, by Quantum Technology (demo available for download)
- Swell-Form Graphics Machine, by American Thermoform
- Tactile Image Enhancer, by Repro-Tronics
Text-to-Braille Translation
- Braille Master, by Robotron
- Braille 'n Print, by Quantum Technology
- Braille-Talk, by GW Micro
- Duxbury Braille Board (for sign-making), by Duxbury Systems (demo available for download)
- Duxbury Braille Translator, by Duxbury Systems (demo available for download)
- MegaDots, by Duxbury Systems (demo available for download)
- Mountbatten Brailler, by Quantum Technology
- Turbo Braille, by KanSys (shareware, with free registration and download)
Engineering And Technology
- Engineering Information, by bengr
- Technological information, by Bb
- Research for engineers, by research4u
- Latest Technological Information, by techvine
Voice Synthesizers
- AT&T Watson (utilizes FlexTalk speech synthesis), by AT&T
- DECtalk, by Digital Equipment Corp / GW Micro
- DoubleTalk, by RC Systems
- Keynote Gold Multimedia, by GW Micro (demo available for download)
- Orpheus, by Dolphin, Computer Access
- Q-Talk, by Quantum Technology
- RealSpeak text-to-speech engine, by Lernout & Hauspie
- SynPhonix, by Artic Technologies
- Sounding Board, by GW Micro
- Speak-Out, by GW Micro
- TransPort (battery operated), by Artic Technologies
- TTS (Text to Speech), by AT&T (on-line demo available)
Web Browsers
- Lynx, by the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas
- Net-Tamer (fully-working copy available for download)
- Opera, by Opera Software (demo available for download)
- pwWebSpeak, by Productivity Works (evaluation copy available for download)
Miscellaneous
- Columbus talking compass, by Robotron
- Dragon Dictate, by Dragon Software (demo available for download)
- Software for Babies, by R.J. Cooper and Associates
- Internet and web services , by eternalbiz
- Easy Search Engine, by Engineering and Technological
- Triangle, a mathematics scratch pad for the blind, by the Science Access Project at Oregon State University
- Internet Service Provider, by brooksdata
- Santafe Eats, by santafe eats
- Ultimate code resource, by codeonthefly
- vCD: Utilities for the Visually Impaired Mac User, by Dairnac
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