Quoting the wikipedia page on the topic~(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology), assistive technologies (ATs for short) is a term for indicating assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities or the elderly population. People with disabilities often have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) independently, or even with assistance. ADLs are self-care activities that include toileting, mobility (ambulation), eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal device care. Assistive technology can ameliorate the effects of disabilities that limit the ability to perform ADLs. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. For example, wheelchairs provide independent mobility for those who cannot walk, while assistive eating devices can enable people who cannot feed themselves to do so. Due to assistive
In this section you can find some useful resources on assistive technologies, especially focusing on the ones you can use to test and evaluate the accessibility of your products, or let you understand how people with disabilities could use them if they are accessible.
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Mathpix is a cloud platform designed to author, edit and distribute scientific documents (e.g. journal articles, research papers), especially when they contain Math formulas; it provides a web service, a desktop application (available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux), and a mobile app (that supports both Android and iOS).
Read morePowered by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Otter is a virtual assistant who can help you transcribe in real time in-person, hybrid and virtual meetings. The web service can be integrated in some of the most common conferencing systems (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet).
Read moreIn this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use [JAWS], perhaps the most used commercial screen reader, to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.
Read moreAccess8Math is an add-on for the NVDA screen reader that provides a lot of very useful features to help blind and visually impaired people work with Math formulas and expressions, no matter their complexity degree.
Read moreIn this page from its developer. you can find references to all documentation resources available for Math Capable Assistive Technology (MathCAT), an open source library aimed at generating speech, braille, and navigation for Math formulas for assistive technology users.
Read moreCurrently under active development, Math Capable Assistive Technology (MathCAT) is an open source library aimed at generating speech, braille, and navigation for Math formulas for assistive technology users.
Read moreAs its name implies, the MathPlayer User manual contains the official documentation for MathPlayer, a tool that plays a critical role with regards to Math accessibility on the Web: many browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.
Read moreInitially developed by Design Science (now acquired by Wiris) to support rendering and displaying Math equations written in MathML for Internet Explorer, MathPlayer is a tool that plays a critical role with regards to Math accessibility on the Web.
Read moreAs the name implies, this is the User Manual for [Tesseract]({{z ref “tesseract.md” }}), an open source project that provides both an OCR engine (available as a library) and a command line tool that provides all the features a standalone OCR solution should provide.
Read moreInitially developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP), and after by Google, Tesseract is an open source project that provides two different (yet related) things: an OCR engine (called libtesseract), available as a framework; a command line program (called tesseract), that allows performing a complete OCR process leveraging the features provided by the “libtesseract” framework.
Read moreIntroduced by their creators as “the smarter PDF solution”, Abbyy FineReader PDF is de-facto the leading solution with regards to digitizing documents by means of an OCR process, both scanned images and image-PDF files.
Read moreDeveloped as part of the “Infty” project, ChattyInfty is can be seen as an extended version of InftyEditor. In fact, it is a commercial desktop application for Microsoft Windows that includes all features provided by InftyEditor making them much more powerful!
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