Visual impairment
Software for the blind and visually impaired has always been expensive and unfortunately this trend is continuing if not worsening. There are other possible options for visually impaired users who are at the mild end of the spectrum such as standard screen readers aimed at the literacy market and altering Windows settings, which will vastly reduce the cost, though there are many people that won’t be able to use this option.
Software for the blind and visually impaired is packaged in one of three ways – a screen reader that will speak out loud what is displayed on the screen, a screen magnifier that will magnify a portion of the screen and display it in the other portion at a user defined size and a combination of both screen reader and magnifier.
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 | SuperNova SuperNova combines magnification, screen-reading and Braille output functions in one complete package. It is very flexible, with a large range of adjustable settings for the magnification, speech and Braille features. This allows the right features to be set up for each person using it. 
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 | JAWS JAWS is a screen reader program for Windows. Although it is very powerful, it is very simple to set up and use.
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 | OmniPage 16 OmniPage 16 is the latest version of the popular OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. This product scans for text on scanned images so that they can be used to edit text or be read out by screen readers such as JAWS.
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