Cook Library: Accessibility: Accessibility Applications

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NVDA screen reader
NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications.
JAWS Screen reader
JAWS, Job Access With Speech, is the world’s most popular screen reader, developed for computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content or navigating with a mouse. JAWS provides speech and Braille output for the most popular computer applications on your PC. You will be able to navigate the Internet, write a document, read an email and create presentations from your office, remote desktop, or from home.

BeeLine Reader
Reading on-screen can be tough on your eyes, especially if you have to do it all day long. We’re here to help. BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes from one line to the next. This technique increases reading speed and enhances focus. In addition to winning awards from Stanford University and the United Nations, BeeLine's approach has been validated in independent testing by literacy nonprofits, educators, and even CNET.

Seeing AI
Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects.
Live Caption
The spoken text shows large on your iPhone or iPad, so you can read what is being said. - Not for use with phone calls.
BARD Mobile
Access tens of thousands of books—from current best sellers to much-loved classics, popular magazines, and music instruction and scores in audio and electronic braille formats, with new selections added daily.

Talking book topics.
Talking Book Topics (TBT) lists a selection of titles recently added to the NLS collection and available through a network of cooperating libraries or the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service. It also carries news of developments in services to people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical, perceptual, or reading disability that prevents them from using regular print materials. NLS publishes Talking Book Topics bimonthly in digital audio and HTML (current and back issues below), as well as PDF of the large-print formats, which include order forms for mailing (current and back issues below), and as a digital "talking" book (DB).

Beeline Reader
Reading on-screen can be tough on your eyes, especially if you have to do it all day long. We’re here to help. BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes from one line to the next. This technique increases reading speed and enhances focus. In addition to winning awards from Stanford University and the United Nations, BeeLine's approach has been validated in independent testing by literacy nonprofits, educators, and even CNET.

Live Transcribe
Live Transcribe is an accessibility app designed for the Deaf and hard of hearing and usable by anyone. Using Google's state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition technology, Live Transcribe performs real-time transcription of speech and sound to text on your screen, so you can more easily participate in conversations going on in the world around you. You can also keep the conversation going by typing your response on the screen.
BARD Mobile
Access tens of thousands of books—from current best sellers to much-loved classics, popular magazines, and music instruction and scores in audio and electronic braille formats, with new selections added daily.

Talking book topics.
Talking Book Topics (TBT) lists a selection of titles recently added to the NLS collection and available through a network of cooperating libraries or the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service. It also carries news of developments in services to people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical, perceptual, or reading disability that prevents them from using regular print materials. NLS publishes Talking Book Topics bimonthly in digital audio and HTML (current and back issues below), as well as PDF of the large-print formats, which include order forms for mailing (current and back issues below), and as a digital "talking" book (DB).

BeeLine Reader
Reading on-screen can be tough on your eyes, especially if you have to do it all day long. We’re here to help. BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes from one line to the next. This technique increases reading speed and enhances focus. In addition to winning awards from Stanford University and the United Nations, BeeLine's approach has been validated in independent testing by literacy nonprofits, educators, and even CNET.