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Dolphin EasyReader

Quick Overview

EasyReader is a software digital talking book player, allowing the user to read and listen to content through a combination of text, audio and images.
The main advantage of using EasyReader is that the content in a book becomes easy to navigate through, where a reader can skip through sections of the content and place bookmarks to highlight areas of interest.

The blind coconut seller

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 16:49 -- nikita.jain

His world is dark. Still, 50-year-old Raja has to work for a living in order to look after his family consisting of a wife and two children.

He is usually to be found inside a small shack on the uneven pavement opposite the Pandiyan pastry shop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. His frail and malnourished body is often hidden behind the piles of coconuts .

ZY®-Tex2 Swell Paper

Quick Overview

Zy-Tex2 Swell Paper is used in conjunction with theZy-Fuse Heater that is an innovative piece of technology that creates tactile diagrams.
It is a High Quality paper designed to work with PIAF or Zy-Fuse heating machines for making tactile graphics or diagrams.

Concern over Disabilities Bill

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 16:42 -- nikita.jain

As a person with visual impairment, the experience of disability has been a routine one for me, and disability studies constitutes a significant part of my academic engagement as well. I have also been involved with the activities of the disability rights movement. Your editorial “Disabled by Lack of Political Will” (EPW, 11 January 2014) was a timely intervention in the evolving debates on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill that was cleared by the cabinet in December 2013.

ZY®-Fuse Heater

Quick Overview

Explore and interpret pictures, maps, mathematical symbols, graphs & diagrams with Tactile diagrams which can be easily produced using the ZY®-Fuse Heater.
The ZY®-Fuse Heater is Fast, Reliable and User Friendly for producing stunning tactile diagrams very useful to benefit the visually impaired.

Dolphin Publisher

Quick Overview

Dolphin Publisher is the premier tool for the creation of DAISY digital talking books (synchronised audio and text) that can be searched and navigated.
It uses human recorded audio, synthetic speech or records your own audio directly into Dolphin Publisher for use in your talking book.

Visually impaired artist aims to inspire, chasing his dream as a painter

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 16:24 -- nikita.jain

Artist Owen McCafferty listens as teacher JoAnn DePolo offers him advice on skin tone and brush strokes.

He takes in her words, nodding, before placing his face close to the canvas and getting down to business.
McCafferty, 51, is like many artists — creative and determined to express himself through his work. But he differs from most for one noticeable reason — he is visually impaired.

Dolphin EasyConverter

Quick Overview

EasyConverter software easily creates Large Print, MP3, DAISY and Braille versions of learning materials that can either be scanned from paper or taken as input from Word, PDF, html or text files.
Either you are a beginner or a professional Dolphin EasyConverter is capable to single handedly meet all your Alt Format conversion needs.

Optelec ClearReader+ Advanced

Quick Overview

The latest intuitive reading assistant for any individual with blindness or low vision, allowing the user to scan, view, magnify, save and/or listen to any printed text in a portable solution!
Get access to a book, a newspaper or any of your favorite printed material in library or resource centre using the ClearReader+ Magnification that hasexcellent OCR performance on difficult brochures, flyers & newspaper columns.

Dolphin SaySo

Quick Overview

The perfect toolbar for dyslexia, learning and visual impairment or for anyone looking to build confidence with reading and writing!
Dolphin SaySo is an easy to use application that can be used in classrooms, activity centres, libraries or organizations to build confidence in students & employees to read - write documents, access ebooks, letters, emails & chats.

ClearView+ Speech

Quick Overview

Introducing a completely new approach for the integration of OCR and Text-to-speech technology that makes it easy to select what you want to read in a desktop video magnifier!

The ClearView+ Speech with intuitive Point&Read interface is available as a complete system or as a separate module

Dolphin SuperNova Reader Magnifier

Quick Overview

A perfect tool for low vision looking for highly advanced Magnification features plus the added support of a screen reader, SuperNova Reader Magnifier is highly customizable depending upon the extent of your vision.
SuperNova Reader Magnifier offers you all the benefits that are provided by a screen magnifier with an added advantage of supporting output to speech that can read documents and talk as you type.

Dolphin Supernova Access Suite

Quick Overview

 

Dolphin SuperNova Access Suite is unique in providing three ways to access any Windows PC and its applications.
It is the ultimate access software, that aids the vision impaired, from low vision to the blind, to use the computer to read or write documents, shop online or access emails using Magnification, Speech & Braille.

In the equation: how to improve access for blind science students

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:59 -- deepti.gahrotra
Studying science can be difficult at the best of times, but if you're blind, it can be even harder. Software to magnify text helps. But a German university has a better solution.
 
Magnifying text in a university lecture hall for students who are visually impaired or blind is one thing. There's software and hardware for that. But the software often struggles with some of the things that scientists need: equations and graphs.

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