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Darwin Reader is the first accessible Android book reader designed specifically for blind, low vision, and print disabled users. The app fully supports DAISY formatted audio and text books, and directly integrates with Benetech Bookshare and Librivox to make downloading books amazingly simple. Read books using your preferred interface. For blind and low vision users, the app is completely navigable with the arrow keys. All menus are fully vocalized. Users with dyslexia and other print disabilities can quickly navigate by tapping the stylized graphics on the screen.

New smartphone app gives sight to the blind: KNFB Reader is $99.

California deaf-Blind Services website with recommendations for New Apps and Resources for iPad :: CDBS

Ariadne GPS is a new app that brilliantly meets the needs of the blind in an easy to use interface. Talking maps allow you to explore the world around you by moving your finger around the map. While exploring, crossing a street is signaled by vibration. It has a favorites feature and can be used to announce stops on the bus or train. Rotating maps keep you centered, with territory behind the user on the bottom of the screen and what is ahead on the top portion

NLS is coming out with an app soon for idevices and Android and they students with orthopedic impairments who can't turnpages of a book and students who are blind are eligible for their talking-book program

Website with tools, free screen readers and other informtion for people who work with students with visual impairments.

Braille Institute is proud to present ViA (Visually Impaired Apps) for iPhone and iPad. ViA has been designed to help blind and low-vision users easily sort through the 500,000+ apps in the iTunes App Store to locate the apps that were built specifically for visually impaired users, or apps that happen to provide functionality useful to this population.

Apps for the Blinhd and Visually impaired