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Adaptive Technology
Descriptions and links to the companies that produce and or sell adaptive technology for the blind and visually impaired.
Braille Embosser
Braille Translation Software
- Software used to convert text to Braille using a computer and Braille embosser.
CCTV (Closed Circuit Television)
- A television video camera combination used by people who are visually impaired to magnify the print in books and newspapers. It can also be used to write letters, and checks, and do different types of crafts like needlepoint.
Large Print Printers
- Any ink jet, dot matrix or laser jet printer can produce large print all you need to do is set the font size larger before printing.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
- Software used to convert scanned text, from books or other documents, into information that the computer can recognize. This software along with a PC and scanner gives blind and visually impaired people access to almost all printed material.
Refreshable Braille Display
- A device used to produce Braille output the way computer monitors produce print output. They are especially useful for deaf blind people that cannot use speech output.
Screen Magnification Software
- Software used by people with poor eyesight to enlarge the text on the computer screen.
Screen Reading Software or Text to Speech
- Software used to convert Text on the computer screen into spoken words. Used by the totally blind and others that have trouble reading even magnified text.
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