Accessibility at Your Favorite Things

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• Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Accessibility  (160)
• Shopping: Health: Disabilities: Assistive Technology: Computer Access  (49)
• Society: Disabled: Assistive Technology: Computers  (7)

• BBC My Web My Way - Explains common web accessibility options on Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
• BrailleSurf 4.0 - Basic web browser driving a Braille display.
• BrookesTalk - Browser for the blind and visually impaired, being developed by Oxford Brookes University. Free evaluation version.
• Communicate: Webwide - Symbol and blind web browser from Widgit
• Connect Outloud - Self-voicing web browser (also drives Braille displays) from the makers of JAWS, Freedom Scientific.
• Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop - Fully-fledged GNU/Linux speech-enabled browser with support for Aural CSS.
• Enhancing Internet Access - Touchscreen system for people with disabilities and special needs.
• Fire Vox - Talking Browser Extension for Firefox - An open source suite of extensions for Firefox that make Firefox into a talking brower for the visually impaired.
• Firefox Accessibar - Firefox extension that allows you to change the appearance of web pages, including zoom and colour changes, and read back web pages.
• Freedombox - An all-in-one web browser, chat application, media player and dedicated system for blind people.
• Guide - An all-in-one software package featuring a self-voicing web browser from Software Express.
• Introduction to the Screen Reader - A short video demonstrating how screen readers assist people who are blind navigate the web and interact with the electronic page. [QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media]
• Jaws Screen Reader Adaptation for Mozilla Firefox - Firefox extension that helps JAWS screenreader users use the open-source browser.
• MozBraille - Self-voicing and Braille output based on the Mozilla browser.
• MultiWeb - Browser for users with multiple disabilities, including speech engine and text enlargement. Works with switch devices and touch screens.
• PnC Net - Magnifying and self-voicing web browser.
• Portset WebTalk Internet Browser - Portset WebTalk browser and ISP, used with KeySpeak screen reader.
• pwWebSpeak - A self-voicing (speaking) web browser.
• ReaderBot - A self-voicing web browser and website accessibility system from Advanced Chatbot Solutions.
• Simply Web 2000 - Speech friendly, speech enabled, with features that allow easy navigation of complex pages by blind users.
• SpeakOn - A free self-voicing suite with web browser, Internet radio player, DAISY book reader and access to talking newspapers.
• Twitter - All-in-one solution with web browsing capabilities.
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - A recommendation from the W3C for how to designing user agents to lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities.
• The Wanna-Be Web Browser - Apple Mac text-only browser.
• WebAnywhere - Online service that lets you navigate web pages as with a screenreader, but works just by navigating to the WebAnywhere site. No installation or software required.
• WebbIE - Web browser and other related utilities for blind and visually-impaired screen-reader users.
• WebFormator - Works with Internet Explorer and provides an accessible text-only re-presentation of a web page for a user's screen reader.

• Current Browsers and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - An article by Patrick H. Lauke for the Web Standards Project, examining how well today's browsers adhere to the guidelines from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. (May 20, 2007)