Text to Speech. Accessibility - OS X - Vision. Text to Speech Software for Reading Disabilities as Dyslexia, Visual Impairment and ELL. Kurzweil Educational Systems, the award winning text-to-speech and assistive technology, offers powerful reading, writing and test-taking software literacy solutions for struggling readers and writers. Text-to-Speech Software for those with Reading Disabilities Simultaneously listen to and read scanned text, image text, digital files and internet pages. Accessible file types include: TXT; HTML; PDF; TIFF; NIMAS; MathML; DOC; RTF; DAISY and any scanned paper with text and photos. Visually track words and phrases on screen while reading aloud. Highlight or create Text, Bubble or Voice notes. Hear what you write as you work, and as you review, proof, and edit your work. Use a research-based writing path to process writing models. Text-to-Speech Software for those with Vision Impairment Provides easy access to common personal and business applications: An audible calendar, calculator, photocopier and fax.
Kurzweil: An Integrated Literacy Solution for Life. Shodor: A National Resource for Computational Science Education. Three ways to create digital talking books for students with disabilities using Microsoft Word. Blind Cool Tech Podcast. Blind Access Journal. Podcasting: Content Available Anytime, Anywhere - AccessWorld® - September 2006. Jennifer Sutton Have you been hearing about podcasts for the past year or so but are still not sure what they are or whether they are accessible? Or have you heard of podcasts, such as Blind Cool Tech, ACBRadio's Replay, or Blind Access Journal, but simply have been downloading the audio files by visiting each web site and saving each new file on your computer?
If you answered yes to either of these questions, or even if you have been listening to podcasts for a while, this article will help you get started and offer some new tips and tricks to increase your enjoyment of this fun and rapidly growing multimedia phenomenon. A podcast is like an Internet radio show. A show, often an audio one recorded as an MP3 file, is posted on the Internet for interested listeners to download.
In this article, I focus on how to listen to audio-based podcasts, give you some tips on which podcatching software you will want to install on your computer, and describe how to find podcasts that interest you.