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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Developed as part of the “Infty” project, InftyReader is a commercial desktop application available for Microsoft Windows that allows digitizing scientific documents (including mathematical formulas). More specifically, it can recognize text content and math expressions either from scanned images or PDF documents by performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process with a neural network trained with this specific purpose in mind.
Read moreAcronym of Linear Access to Mathematics for Braille Device and Audio-synthesis, Lambda is a commercial application that allows entering, exploring and manipulating math formulas in a linear way that is especially suitable for usage with Braille displays and screen readers.
Read moreVoice Dream Reader is an award-winning, feature rich commercial text-to-speech reader that turns any document and ebook into audio. It provides a comprehensive set of features that make reading documents (including books and web pages) on iOS an extremely pleasant experience.
Read moreDeveloped by Giuseppe Di Grande (an Italian blind programmer), Biblos is a free, accessible word processor that provides many features that make it suitable for usage both by people with disabilities and the production of accessible content for people with disabilities.
Read moreBalabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that boasts many features to make life easier when reading text on a screen. It can read content from the clipboard, extract text from documents in many different formats, display the spoken text with customize font and background color, and control reading from the system tray or by global keyboard shortcuts.
Read moreThis is the official guide for TalkBack, the screen reader for Android developed by Google. In this guide you can find information that explains how to interact with any Android device using TalkBack, as it illustrates all the gestures and features it provides.
Read moreDeveloped by Google, TalkBack is a screen reader that makes it possible for blind and visually impaired people to use devices running the Android operating system or any of its variations (such as Android TV): these include smart phones, tablets, and even smart TVs and a wide variety of different devices that serve an even wider variety of user’s needs.
Read moreThis guide provides a lot of useful information on how to use Speakup, a linux screen reader for console-based applications. It illustrates the screen reader interface, as well as describing the features it provides and the keyboard shortcuts it supports.
Read moreThis is the official documentation for Narrator, the screen reader developed by Microsoft that comes preinstalled on each PC running the Windows operating system. Other that documenting the latest improvements made to the screen reader, this manual describes its features, the supported keyboard shortcuts and provides guidance on how to use it to explore and manipulate user interfaces, web pages and other documents.
Read moreBeing developed since the early 2000’s, Narrator is a screen reader that comes preinstalled on each computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system. While being available for a long time, Narrator made huge steps forward that made it actually suitable for usage as a screen reader with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
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