The Keyboard with Keyguard isolates the keys, which helps to stabilize and position fingers or pointers. The keyguard is attached to the keyboard eliminating the guesswork of matching up a keyguard to a keyboard. The keyguard is reinforced for stiffness. It is made of unbreakable, clear, .125 inch thick Lexan (a plastic material). The keyholes are smoothly finished and perfectly aligned with each key.
Manufacturer: Infogrip
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: Yes
Users can bookmark, make notes, skim or summarize text to aid mastery of concepts and details. They can modify reading speed, pitch, and emphasis to suit specific preferences and purposes. They can edit or create documents assisted by an audible dictionary, thesaurus or prioritized spell checker, and archive them using a simple file management dialog.
Manufacturer: Kurzweil
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: No
The Echo smartpen from Livescribe records everything you hear, say and write, and links your audio recordings to your notes, so you can find what you need. Ideal for meetings, conferences, or classes. Replay your recorded audio anytime, anywhere, with a quick tap on your notes. Save and Search Using the Livescribe Desktop, you can save notes to your computer. Search for specific words or phrases within all of your notebooks, organize them they way you want, and export them locally for backup or transfer. Send and Share notes or recordings publically or privately as a PDF, audio file, or a pencast. A student can go back to a specific scribbled word in his notebook, touch the pen to that spot and hear a full recording of what the speaker was saying when the mark was made.
Manufacturer: Livescribe
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: Yes
Snap & Read is an accessible toolbar that reads any text on-screen as it floats over any application. The simple one-button interface reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from Flash websites, Word docs, PDFs, web-based tests, images, and even dialog boxes.
Manufacturer: Don Johnston Incorporated
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: No
Scan a VOICEYE code at the top right corner of the printed material, it will then be opened automatically on your smartphone and the text can be read aloud with TTS (Text-to-Speech) software like on the iPhone or iPad (voiceover), or with TALKS or Mobile Speaks.
Manufacturer: VOICEYE, Inc.
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: Yes
VOICEYE is a voice output bar code reading program and video magnification program designed for use by people who are blind or have low vision and individuals with dyslexia and other reading disabilities. This application (or “app”) allows a person to use an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad or any Android device to read data from VOICEYE bar codes and to magnify text and other printed content. VOICEYE bar codes contain up to two pages of text, and when the user reads the bar code with the device’s camera, the device will display the document’s text and read the text of the document aloud using Apple Voiceover (see separate entry) or the Android text-to-speech feature. A data or internet connection to decode a VOICEYE code as the code itself stores the data. VOICEYE bar codes are created using the VOICEYE Maker for MS-Word or VOICEYE Maker for Adobe InDesign (see separate entries). VOICEYE labels can also be purchased and placed on documents or items. The first time that the user reads the label, he or she can record a short message describing the item to be identified. The message will be played when the label is subsequently read. To use the magnifier feature of the VOICEYE app, the user points the device’s camera at the content to be viewed, and the app will display the text or graphics. It offers six zoom levels and five high contrast viewing modes.
Manufacturer: VOICEYE, Inc.
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: No