Software - Trial and Shareware
| Software Title | Platforms | Vendor Web Site Link | About the Software Package |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Prompt | Windows | A-Prompt Project web site | A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML documents by evaluating Web pages for accessibility barriers and then providing developers with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs. |
| Magic Screen Magnification | Windows 95, 98, Me & NT 4.0, 2000, XP Pro | Magic web site |
Combines great magnification features with true low vision screen reading. |
| Supernova™ Reader Magnifier | Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, NT4, 2000 | Dolphin web site |
Ideal for individuals with a visual impairment because it combines powerful magnification, multilingual speech and accurate Braille output in one product. |
| Zoom Text | Windows XP, ME, 2000, NT4, 98 or 95 | Zoom Text web site |
Magnification and reading software. With its easy to use features, ZoomText makes computers accessible and friendly to low-vision users. |
| JAWS Screen Reader | NT, 2000Pro, XP Pro and 95, 98, Me, XP Home | JAWS web site |
Information from the screen is read aloud, providing technology to access a wide variety of information, education and job related applications. |
| Hal Screen Reader | Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP | Hal web site |
Screen access for visually impaired computer users through speech and Braille. |
| Read Please | Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 | Read Please web site |
Visually driven and easy to use text-to-speech software. |
| Open Book Scanning | All Windows operating systems | Open Book web site |
Converts a printed page into electronic text to be read aloud through its included voice synthesizer and shown on a customizable screen display. |
| Connect Outloud | All Windows operating systems | Connect Outloud web site |
Designed for the beginning to experienced blind or low vision computer user to access the Internet through speech and Braille output. |
| IBM Home Page Reader | Windows | IBM Home Page Reader Web Site | Spoken Internet for the blind and visually impaired users. |
| Opera Browser | Windows, Linux, Mac, Symbian OS, QNX (5.2.1| 6.01 Beta1), OS/2 | Opera web site |
Web Browser: Opera is user-friendly, secure, and quite exceptionally fast. It's cardinal features include speed, size, security and standards support. Additionally, making the Web accessible to all user groups is an important motivation for Opera Software. Opera incorporates these accessibility features: Keyboard shortcuts, Mouse gestures, Zoom document (20%-1000%), User mode |
| Dreamweaver | Windows, Macintosh | Macromedia Dreamweaver web site | Web site development tool |
| Dreamweaver Accessibility Tools | Windows, Macintosh | Macromedia Dreamweaver accessibility Plugins |
Site that covers accessibility issues for Macromedia products |
| Magpie |
MAGpie 1.0 is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP application. Magpie 2.01 is a Java2 application which runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP and on Mac OSX. It is in beta level, i.e., it is not bug-free and stable. |
Magpie web site | A tool for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media |
| Power Point Accessibility Tool | Windows |
University of Illinois Division of Rehabilitation |
Converts Power Point presentations into accessible HTML. |
| Microsoft Frontpage Accessibility tool from HiSoftware | Windows | This page links to a plug-in version of AccVerify SE, an accessibility tool from HiSoftware, that is free for registered users of Microsoft Frontpage |
Note - Some information comes directly from the owning organization and has in-line reference links provided. If you have difficulty with any of the in-line references or would like to find out more about the information provided, please contact us and we will point you in the right direction.
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