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 | 08/08/2010 | Force Ten Newsletter mentions some new electronic magnifiers that were at Sight Village - July 2010. Three new desktop CCTVs and additional features for the Looky Plus, Tiger embossers and Braille Sense. |
| 25/07/2010 | RNIB offer over 100 electronic text books for 11-14yr old print impaired students. Available from September as a result of a Dept. for Education project to those with visual impairments and dyslexia. |
| 19/07/2010 | The iPhone app that takes the strain out of texting by turning speech into type Speech both as an input and an output is coming to most smart phones. |
| 11/07/2010 | SayText: a Free, Accessible OCR App for Blind iPhone Users Capture a picture and have it read back to you - may suit may users especially those with reading difficulties. |
| 27/06/2010 | Read&Write 4 GOLD FOR MAC available with many of the PC version's features. According to [url=http://itechwire.org/10702335/first-screenshot-reader-for-mac-is-launched.html]iTechwire[/url] ... |
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| 27/06/2010 | Computer World tips on iPhone 4 where "the Accessibility controls have a couple of tricks for everybody" "Turn on character counts in text messaging, changing fonts for readability, avoiding the "Death Grip," ... |
| 28/05/2010 | Joe's review of SuperNova 11.50 with comments related to its use on Windows XP. This is the latest version of the Dolphin screen reader and magnification software. |
| 16/05/2010 | Concept Live - an online training resource for assistive technology. Pilot stage now over, Concept Live have an e-learning site available for students and Access to Work clients who require ... |
| 12/04/2010 | The Practical (and Fun) Guide to Assistive Technology in Public Schools Coming soon this book could be useful to those planning services in a regional area |
| 28/03/2010 | Need to find out the best features to suit your needs on a mobile phone? Mobile Manufacturer's Forum Database of accessible features on mobile phones. |
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| 22/03/2010 | HumanWare Launches Victor Reader Stream CD Edition Transfer a DAISY book on CD onto one single, portable audio playback device without the use of a computer. |
| 14/03/2010 | MedHand - Dr Companion Instant Medical Information on a PC, PDA, smart phone or iPhone. Access to medical dictionaries and advice on a mobile device. |
| 08/03/2010 | Sight & Sound Exhibitions Bournemouth 18th March and Camberley on 8th April, 2010 |
| 21/02/2010 | Portable programs for phonics - Phonics Toolbox Xavier software bundle programs onto a USB pendrive. |
| 10/01/2010 | Beta test the new JISC TechDis toolbar. Text to speech, spell checking, dictionary, reference web pages, change colours and fonts on web pages. |
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| 10/01/2010 | Trying to decide which e-book reader to buy? Looking for an e-book reader that takes the formats you want and is easy to use can be hard to find! |
| 27/12/2009 | Sensory Software offer free Talkative grid set for The Grid 2 Now available for download at Online Grids as part of the Grid collection. |
| 20/12/2009 | Updates to ClaroRead for PC V5.5, ClaroIdeas, ClaroCapture V2 and SymWord Clarosoftware update their product range and show Oska, the On-Screen Keyboard at Bett 2010. |
| 22/11/2009 | What is new in Inspiration version 9 of the graphical mapping program Due to be launched in UK at Bett January 2010 |
| 15/11/2009 | HumanWare Launches the BrailleNote Apex QT BrailleNote Apex is a lightweight note taker with Braille QWERTY keyboard |
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| 15/11/2009 | Intel Reader launched as a text capture system with optical character recognition. Portable reading device suitable for those with visual impairments, dyslexia or other reading difficulties. |
| 25/10/2009 | Baker & Taylor and K-NFB Reading Technology Partnership to supply accessible e-books. Partnership to provide digital media content for K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.'s e-reader. |
| 25/10/2009 | What's New in JAWS 11 screenreader JAWS 11 now shipping in USA for Microsoft Windows 7 |
| 18/10/2009 | New Co:Writer Word Prediction Software Update on the original version with databanks, text to speech and simple look and feel. |
| 11/10/2009 | TextHelp Fluency Tutor launched. An on-line tool which helps develop oral reading fluency for early learners. |
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| 04/10/2009 | RADAR launch new publication 'Doing IT Differently' Guide to provide information and assistance to take advantage of Information Technology regardless of disability. |
| 13/09/2009 | Toby Churchill Ltd Open Day - Makers of the Lightwriter 11am - 4pm at Toby Churchill House, Norman Way Industrial Estate, Over, Cambridge CB24 5QE |
| 06/09/2009 | Windows 7 a better experience for everyone? Improved accessibility out of the box... |
| 30/08/2009 | Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? Which applications are compatible? Several sites now have news about software that will work when you go for the new operating system. |
| 23/08/2009 | Credit crunch prices or free and open source assistive technologies. Looking for assistive technologies that may be a bit cheaper? |
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| 16/08/2009 | PC World reckons "Mac OSX Snow Leopard could arrive in Two Weeks" with increased accessibility More useful features for VoiceOver 3.0 |
| 16/08/2009 | Mac-cessibility for the iPhone - useful information about add-ons etc. Useful website related to accessibility and the iPhone |
| 19/07/2009 | MacSpeech Dictate Legal. released Dictate Legal has 30,000 legal words and terms with improved noise-cancelling microphone headset. |
| 12/07/2009 | Texthelp Systems provide more voices to all Read&Write 9 customers A range of 13 International Voices along with the UK Voices Daniel, Emily, Texthelp Tim and Texthelp Tina |
| 28/06/2009 | CapturaTalk makes news - Spy technology helping dyslexics! BBC have a clip of Neil Milliken talking about this mobile technology |
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| 21/06/2009 | Browsealoud website text to speech reader adds Welsh voice Welcome Llywarch to your collection of voices for Welsh language speakers. |
| 21/06/2009 | MacSpeech Dictate 1.5 and Dictate Medical Available Dictate Medical has a specialised vocabulary for those using MacSpeech Dictate in medical and health-related fields. |
| 14/06/2009 | Texthelp on the road during June and July 2009 Free demonstrations of Texthelp products across the country. |
| 14/06/2009 | Latest iPhone has more accessibility features Voiceover, Voice commands and vibration when using the screen are included in the latest iPhone. |
| 07/06/2009 | WinZoom USB - New portable screen magnifier and reader This software will run on any Windows compatible computer with no software installation required. |
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| 30/05/2009 | Enhanced Vision reduce prices of the Merlin CCTV Electronic Magnifier special offers for June, July, August and September 2009 |
| 30/05/2009 | SpeakEasy Media System for those with visual impairments. New Designs Unlimited, LLC are happy to export from USA for a flat rate of $10 |
| 24/05/2009 | Virtual 508 Accessibility Wizard for Office 2007 now available. Use the wizard to convert Microsoft Word to HTML and Microsoft Powerpoint to HTML |
| 17/05/2009 | Dolphin launches SuperNova, Hal, Lunar and LunarPlus version 11 CD and Pen drive versions available for Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7 beta |
| 10/05/2009 | Penfriend offer Cereproc voices free with their software till the end of 2009 Penfriend applications offer word prediction with speech output for Windows PC computers. |
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| 03/05/2009 | Read&Write 3 GOLD FOR MAC to be launched on 15th May Several new features in this version mirror those of the Windows PC version of Read and Write. |
| 03/05/2009 | Techmatrix in USA has added more products to its database A matirx used to compare the features of assistive technologies |
| 26/04/2009 | Proloquo2Go 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch - a break-through in Augmentative Communication Text to speech, large vocabulary and symbols to aid communication. |
| 12/04/2009 | Apple Releases Free VoiceOver Kit 1.01 for 3G Shuffle Speech output update available for third generation iPod Shuffles. |
| 12/04/2009 | Proloquo2Go: AAC in Your Pocket New product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty ... |
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| 12/04/2009 | Vinux 1.4 released by Tony Sales at the RNCB A customised version of Ubuntu for Visually Impaired Users |
| 06/04/2009 | Update for the Daisy add-in to MS Word 2003 and 2007 The Daisy Consortium 'Save as DAISY' add-in for Microsoft Office Word now incorporates a 'Lite' ... |
| 06/04/2009 | Microsoft end support for Encarta Microsoft close the online version of Encarta in October and discontinue sales of the PC software by June. |
| 29/03/2009 | Read & Write 3 GOLD for MAC launched Text can be read from Safari, MS Word for MAC 2008 and accessible Adobe Reader 9 PDFs |
| 15/03/2009 | Surface computer, which responds to touch and hand gestures, will be marketed in the UK Microsoft begins to export the computer that has alternative input methods. |
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| 15/03/2009 | Talking iPod Shuffle and possibly switch accessibility. Newest iPod Nano set to read out information such as song titles and playlist names by default. |
| 08/03/2009 | Ecofont - Use less ink by printing with a font that has holes in all the characters! Developed by SPRANQ Creative Communications, Utrecht, The Netherlands (www.spranq.eu). |
| 08/03/2009 | O2's new touchscreen tablet Joggler looks to organise families with automated text messages. Could this be helpful for those needing reminders and have many other uses! |
| 22/02/2009 | Olearia - free open source Macintosh based DAISY playback software Olearia is under development at Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology. |
| 15/02/2009 | Kindle 2 electronic reader arrives with some issues from publishers. The Authors Guild says the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature could violate authors' audio book copyrights. |
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| 15/02/2009 | Dolphin upgrade version 10 of their products for visually impaired users and introduce EasyConverter version v4.01 SuperNova, Hal, Lunar and LunarPlus users can upgrade free of charge from version 10 to 10.2. |
| 08/02/2009 | Invitation to test: New functionality in RoboBraille Update to the e-mail service to translate documents into synthesised text to speech as a downloadable MP3 or into ... |
| 18/01/2009 | Sat-nav that guides you to Blue badge facilities, point of interest and accessible loos! Similar looking to a TomTom but with information relevant to those with mobility difficulties. |
| 11/01/2009 | Thinking a little differently about the way you generate ideas? There seems to be group of new online services and software appearing linked to mind or concept mapping. |
| 04/01/2009 | Texthelp Read and Write 9 GOLD - new version on show at Bett Many additions have been made to the current version of Read and Write Gold. |
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| 28/12/2008 | MindMeister 3.0 update to this collaborative mind mapping solution Free create, share, import and export mind maps on the web. |
| 28/12/2008 | Head-designed shirts by LaesieWorks and AssistiveWare. Fun artwork for each shirt head-designed by Giesbert Nijhuis using a Mac. |
| 21/12/2008 | Introducing BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac, Linux and PC Adobe AIR-powered download manager allows Mac and Linux users to have access to BBC iPlayer Desktop. |
| 21/12/2008 | iZoom 3.0 Screen Magnifier and Reader now available 1.5X to 36X magnification with speech for Windows XP and Vista |
| 23/11/2008 | LiveScribe Pulse smartpen is now Mac-compatible The LiveScribe Pulse smart pen has a microphone, speaker and tiny camera, as well as one or two gigabytes of memory to ... |
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| 16/11/2008 | AMIS DAISY Reader - Beta 4 now available! AMIS 3, the free and open source DAISY player for Windows, has just reached its fourth beta release. |
| 16/11/2008 | Mini 7in DisplayLink USB monitors available from December 2008. Do you need an extra screen that is portable and does not need an extra video port or another plug socket? |
| 16/11/2008 | MacSpeech Dictate has been updated - free upgrade Increases accuracy and the ability to train for complex words and phrases. |
| 26/10/2008 | ViewPlus Tiger Software for braille math support within Microsoft Word ViewPlus Technologies and Design Science announce update to the TSS4.1 suite. |
| 12/10/2008 | T&T Consultancy, Ltd lauch latest version of J-Tunes A series of JAWS scripts to make iTunes accessible to JAWS users |
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| 31/08/2008 | CDSpecial, myMediaPlayer, Launcher6 and eStoryMaker Simple Adapted Media Players, a Program Launcher/Electronic Speech Aid, and Accessible E-stories Made Easy |
| 10/08/2008 | An Automatic Screen Scanning System (ASSS) is launched by ICTEACH This is the name of a new tool for those with severe communication difficulties and for switch users. |
| 20/07/2008 | Free magnification software from ClaroSoftware Lightning Express up to 6 times magnification with high contrast and coloured mouse pointers. |
| 29/06/2008 | ClaroRead for Mac ‘08 - V3 Is Now Shipping ClaroRead for Mac ‘08 works with Microsoft Word 2004 and 2008, Safari and other Mac applications to provide text ... |
| 29/06/2008 | Asus EEE with Co:Writer and Write:Outloud The Asus EEE PC 701 is a notepad with 7inch screen weighing 920g - dimensions 225 × 165mm |
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| 22/06/2008 | Thoughts of the latest version of Mozilla Firefox Browser. The latest update for the Mozilla Firefox browser is easy to use with clear buttons and easy download. |
| 01/06/2008 | Tiger Elite & Premier Braille Embosser Series High-volume braille production-now with TIGER graphics |
| 26/05/2008 | Browsealoud update plus TextHelp and Claro Software cater for more languages More RealSpeak Solo voices available supporting an increasing number of International Languages. |
| 19/05/2008 | Spellex PocketMed shipping soon Lack of handheld medical spellchecker so resolved! |
| 11/05/2008 | "Microsoft announces DAISY XML for people with sight problems" This comes from the Guardian Blog on May 7th, but please read on as making documents 'Daisy ready' is still ... |
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| 30/03/2008 | British Dysexia Association teams up with Claro Software to launch affordable software. Announced at the International BDA conference along with the release of ClaroRead Plus 2008 for PC |
| 16/03/2008 | Survey results highlight the most popular features of mind mapping software The Mind Mapping Software Weblog is designed to provide a collection of resources related to visual mapping |
| 09/03/2008 | Concerned about cleanliness in labs, at work or at home. Keytools have a collection of washable keyboards, mice & accessories |
| 09/03/2008 | PostureMinder aims to stop you slumping in front of your computer Software that monitors posture, length of time at the keyboard and then offers exercises. |
| 02/03/2008 | ClaroRead for Mac ‘08 (Version 2) is now shipping - Full support for Office 2008. This version includes 3 Acapela British English voices, Graham, Peter and Lucy |
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| 24/02/2008 | New KNFB Reader/Kreader on a Nokia N82 Mobile Phone Sight and Sound advertise the arrival of this new portable scanner reader. |
| 17/02/2008 | Thinking about the ultra light laptops running the latest Leopard and Vista operating systems The BBC dot.life blogs have been covering the Asus and MacAir offerings. |
| 27/01/2008 | Elexia Computer keyboard of many colours. It has keys that are back lit in a colour of you choice with any mix of red, green and blue. |
| 20/01/2008 | The latest Macs gain Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Mind Manager as software options iListen goes over the Nuance to combine with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MindManager 7 is now Leopard compatible. |
| 06/01/2008 | Camtasia Studio 5.0 has its own blog site. Techsmith set up a Camtasia user website to provide easy sharing of video feeds. |
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| 23/12/2007 | Dolphin offer free updates to version 8.02 for those customers using version 8 of their products. Supernova, Hal, Lunar and LunarPlus have recently been updated with additional features and bug fixes. |
| 16/12/2007 | New Flash Player with MSAA on Firefox and H.264 Video Caption support released in Flash CS3 plus MSAA support for Firefox so screen reader users can interact with most ... |
| 09/12/2007 | Christmas comes to Grid Users Sensory Software International Ltd. has updated the Grid and offers many more templates. |
| 09/12/2007 | Out and About Series updated with an assessment support CD. This is a series of software CDs which are aimed to help those with learning difficulties with life skills. |
| 18/11/2007 | Sensory Software offer Grid 2 importer This new tool allows you to import grids that you have made in other software and open them in The Grid 2. |
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