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Apps for Individuals with Vision Impairment
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Apps for Reading
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Color Vision Deficiency Information & Products
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Handwriting Recognition Technology
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Low Vision Enhancement Products
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Systems - Scan
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Reading / Highlighting Products
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Text Reader
Apps for Individuals with Vision Impairment
Vendors and Products
- KNFB Reader
- Magnifier & Microscope [Cozy]
- Magnifying Glass (Android app)
- Magnifying Glass + Flashlight Android
- Magnifying Glass for Android
- Microsoft Office Lens-PDF Scanner
- NowYouSee Android
- Path Guide
- Reading Glasses - Magnifier - Visual Aid Zoom
- Sunu App
- waveOut
- weZoom - Magnifier and Low Vision Aid
Apps for Reading
Apps to help with reading disabilities including OCR, audiobooks, etc.
Vendors and Products
- (How to) Pronounce
- ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator
- Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL)
- Adjective Remix
- Aeir Talk
- Audiobooks for iPhone
- BARD Mobile
- ClaroSpeak
- Dictionary - Merriam-Webster
- Dictionary.com
- Ghotit Buzz Writer
- iBooks
- iPractice Verbs
- KNFB Reader
- Notability
- Prizmo
- SnapType
- Sounds: The Pronunciation App
- Voice Dream Reader
- Voice Dream Writer
Color Vision Deficiency Information & Products
Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) is the inability to distinguish between some colors and shades. Most people with this condition can identify some colors. Few people are totally "color blind." Color filters, such as a special red contact lens worn on one eye or prescription glasses may be used to help some people with a color deficiency. In addition, talking products are available that will scan a color and announce a description of the color (originally designed for individuals who are blind).
Vendors and Products
American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
Color Oracle
Handwriting Recognition Technology
Handwriting Recognition Technology includes a variety of products: e.g., software, writing pens, note collection platforms, and scanning products/services.
Vendors and Products
Low Vision Enhancement Products
Vision Enhancement products are portable low vision aids that can be worn with glasses or head-mounted for persons with low vision.These devices may be used for a variety of distance and midrange visual activities such as seeing faces, TV, the blackboard in school, computer screens, packages on shelves, dialing the telephone, and signs while traveling etc. These products will not restore vision to normal.
Vendors and Products
- 8x X-Vision Binocular
- Arena D 8 x 32 B
- Around the Neck Stand Magnifiers
- Aspheric Hand-held Magnifier
- Bar Stand Magnifiers
- easyPOCKET
- Frame for Keplerian Monocular Telescopes
- Hand-held Magnifier / Stand Magnifier Combination
- Hand-held Magnifier with stand
- Makrolux 2.2x
- Makrolux 3.6x (with video demonstration)
- MakroPLUS 1.8x
- MaxDetail - Galiliean Telescope
- MaxDetail Clip
- MaxTV
- MaxTV Clip
- MenasZoom
- Monocular w/stand
- SmartLux Digital Portable Video Magnifier
- Trophy S Zoom Observation Instrument
- Variety of telescopic devices
- VarioMAXI Magnifying Lamp
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Systems - Scan
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows people with a vision impairment to scan printed text and receive a synthetic speech output or save it to a computer. Currently, OCR technology cannot convert handwriting to voice output.Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has three factors: scanning, recognition, and reading text. First a camera scans the printed document. Next, OCR software converts the image into recognizable characters/words. Then the user can store the information in electronic form to a computer or the OCR system itself.
Vendors and Products
Reading / Highlighting Products
Products include voice output (screen reading capabilities) and other tools to enhance the reading for individuals with reading difficulties. Other features may include: screen highlighting, study skills, test taking, and Internet tools.
Vendors and Products
Text Reader
Read text by scanning print material into a computer using optical character recognition. Features include voice output, hightlighting of text.