Software for the Disabled

• Offers speech and Braille output
  
  to the web using Internet Explorer 5.5 Sends and receives mail using Outlook
  
  Express. Creates documents using FS Editor word processor with its own spell
  
  checker

• Works with Windows Desktop,
  
  Windows Explorer and many other applications and accessories including
  
  Windows Media Player and Real Player

• Has an interactive talking
  
  install that allows installation without sighted assistance

• Configuration required:
  
  Windows 95, 98, Millennium, NT 4.0- Service Pack 4 or greater. Or, Windows
  
  2000 Professional. Also, a soundcard

• 24 hours demo version
  
  downloadable from the Netn Price: Approximately $249.

BRAILLE ‘N SPEAK: Note taker and personal organizer for

the blind and visually impaired

• Offers speech access and a
  
  standard Perkin’s style Braille keyboard. Allows both grade I or grade II
  
  Braille

• Has a built-in speech
  
  synthesizer. 2.5 MB memory that stores around 2,500 pages of Braille
  
  information. And 25-30 hours of battery life

• In combination with peripherals
  
  like our disk drive accessory, it can also be used to read information
  
  imported from other computers, floppy disks or the Internet. Has complete
  
  word processing capabilities

• Is self-installable

• Weighs less than one pound and is
  
  about the size of a video cassette

• English version: $1299.

BRAILLE LITE 2000: Braille Personal Digital Assistant

• Speech access and Grade I and II
  
  Braille

• Can be used with JAWS for Windows
  
  for quick access to computers

• Serial and parallel port
  
  connectivity for easy connection to printers, embossers and computers

• Built-in word processor, datebook,
  
  phonebook, scientific calculator and clock

• Weighs 3 pounds. 30-hour battery
  
  life

• Price: $3,395.

• There are many others. Type ‘n’
  
  speak; Type Lite; Power Braille that can run on DOS, Windows, OS/2 or Unix;
  
  Braille Blazer Embosser that is both an embosser and a speech synthesizer
  
  for use with any desktop or PC; VersaPoint Duo and DECtalk PCT.

JAWS for Windows (version 3.7): Screen reading software

for the blind and visually impaired

• The most comprehensive and
  
  integrated screen reading software in the market. Can read by character,
  
  word or sentence. Voice settings can be changed by tone, pitch and speed.
  
  Has a type echo: that is, you can read what you type, as you type it

• Reads not only body text but all
  
  menus, menu bars and pop-up menus

• Supports regular Windows commands

• Works with a large spectrum of
  
  programs and applications including: IE 5.5, Visual Basic 6.0 (both with
  
  integrated development environment and VB 6.0 for Applications), Sound Forge
  
  4.5, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project 2000, Eudora Pro, Corel
  
  Word Perfect, Java and Netscape Navigator

• JAWS has also extended support
  
  for Oracle’s Extended Windowing Toolkit components

• 45 minutes demo version
  
  downloadable from the Net

• Price: Approximately $795.

MAGic 8.0: Screen Magnification software with low vision speech.

• User interface provides
  
  color-coded buttons for ease of navigation. Has its own menu bar and a
  
  standard title bar that runs along the very top of the application window

• Has two groups of controls :
  
  magnification (blue controls) and speech (orange controls)

• Speech controls read body text,
  
  menus, web pages, dialogs. Also have type echo and mouse echo (reads
  
  whatever the mouse is pointed at). It also highlights words on the screen as
  
  it reads them

• Has a version called Network
  
  MAGic that runs on a networked computer environment. Especially relevant to
  
  work places

• Has numerous mouse options
  
  including tether-to-display and Line Lock

• Will be compatible with JAWS for
  
  Windows 3.71

• Price: Magnification only for
  
  Windows 95 or 98: $295 With low vision speech for Windows 95/98: $545 MAGic
  
  6.2 for Windows NT/2000 Professional: $395 Other products in this category
  
  include OPENBook and VERA.

Artic WinVision: Browsing software for the visually impaired

• Works with Internet Explorer

• Has its own web cursor to
  
  navigate around a web page script independent of the browser. A logic system
  
  for reading columns and tables

• Also has a web-pilot mode for
  
  hands free operation that can continuously read and feed a web page

• Price: Approximately $800

SoftTTY 1.0: Teletypewriting software for the deaf

• Configurable software that
  
  provides TTY without additional hardware for most modern Macs. A TTY is a
  
  device used by the deaf or hard of hearing for communication over the
  
  telephone.

• System Requirements: PowerPC; OS
  
  8.1 or later; 16MB RAM; voice-capable modem or Geoport modem

• Works only with Macs

• Price: Not available