ATCS SOFTWARE

Screen Readers (Top of Page)

• Kurzweil 1000 (PC).
  Kurzweil 1000 is a combination of scanning and text-to-voice software useful for people with low vision or blindness.
  Campus Locations: ATCS.
  Manufacturer's Web Site: Kurzweil Educational Systems. http://www.kurzweiledu.com.

• Kurzweil 3000 (PC).
  A combination of scanning and text-to-voice software, Kurzweil 3000 is useful for people with dyslexia or other reading difficulties. Kurzweil 3000 allows users to scan any type of printed material including books, magazines, or load electronic documents such as Word documents or Web pages. Users can see the printed material on the screen and hear the text read aloud. The word, phrase, line, sentence, or paragraph being read is highlighted. Kurzweil 3000 retains the document's original type font, format, and illustrations.
  Campus Locations: ATCS.
  Manufacturer's Web Site: Kurzweil Educational Systems. http://www.kurzweiledu.com.

• JAWS (Job Access With Speech) (PC).
  JAWS allows a visually impaired user to navigate a graphical interface using voice output, keyboard commands, and sound cues. It combines Web reading and browsing. It can reformat a table and interpret it "more coherently" than other Web browsing software. It can be very complex and not the best choice for a beginning Web surfer, unless you are of the patient sort. If you are the patient sort, it may be the best possible choice. There are training tapes available for both JAWS and basic Windows concepts. These tapes provide a thorough introduction to both applications and the opportunity to learn by doing.
  Campus Locations: ATCS.
  Manufacturer's Web Site: Freedom Scientific. http://www.freedomscientific.com.

Voice Recognition (Top of Page)

• Dragon NaturallySpeaking (PC).
  Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the world's first and many say, best, large vocabulary, continuous speech, general purpose speech recognition system. It converts speech into text. Users speak into a microphone attached to the computer and NatSpeak will type whatever is said into a word processing or other application. NatSpeak allows users to create documents, e-mail, and other text documents with voice instead of typing. It also allows users to format text and even control certain aspects of the computer by using speaking commands instead of using the keyboard or mouse.
  Campus Locations: ATCS, *Duderstadt Center.
  Manufacturer's Web Site: ScanSoft. http://www.scansoft.com/naturallyspeaking/

Screen Magnification (Top of Page)

• MAGic (MAGnification in Color) (PC).
  MAGic stands for MAGnification In Color. It provides text and graphics magnification for Windows NT programs using a Windows NT graphic display driver that supports 256 colors.
  Campus Locations: ATCS.
  Manufacturer's Web Site: Freedom Scientific. http://www.freedomscientific.com.

Screen Readers (Top of Page)

• WindowEyes (PC). Manufacturer's Web Site: http://www.gwmicro.com.
• OPENBook (PC). Manufacturer's Web Site: http://www.freedomscientific.com.
• WYNN (PC). Manufacturer's Web Site: http://www.freedomscientific.com.

Voice Recognition (Top of Page)

• Via Voice (PC), (Mac). Manufacturer's Web Site: http://www.ibm.com.

Screen Magnification (Top of Page)

• inLARGE (Mac). Manufacturer's Web Site: http://www.aagi.com.
• ZoomText (PC). Manufacturer's Web Site: http://www.aisquared.com/.
  
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