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Apps for the Blinhd and Visually impaired

8 apps to recommend for people with visual impairments. by optometry students.com

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.

Pretty cool article about a new option coming to Facebook to allow people with visual impairments to hear about pictures on Facebook

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

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

SSReader is a free, large font reader for OS X that speaks text files aloud and displays the text stanza-after-stanza, simultaneously. -- See a demonstration! Although this reader was created to assist those with visual impairments, it can be used by anyone. This program works reads any text file, including those from: Project Gutenberg

Ipod,iPoad and Android Apps for students with visual impairments

ChromeVis is a Google Chrome extension designed to make it easier for people with vision impairments to read the content of webpages. When installed ChromeVis allows you to highlight the text on any webpage and have it enlarged and placed on an easy-to-read background. Your highlighted text appears in a pop-up box over the original page so that you can quickly go back to the original source if you want to. ChromeVis can be adjusted to meet your text size and text color preferences.

OrCam for students with visual impairments