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Google has recently demoed an interesting WebGL application called Body Browser, which lets you explore the human body just like you can explore the world in Google Earth. Now you can try Google Body Browser before it's added to Google Labs, assuming that you have a WebGL-enabled browser:"

"WWAAC Web Browser You can download the alternative browser for people with communication and/or cognitive impairments. Below you can read more about the special characteristics about this browser. Homepage = favourites page Integrated speech output Switch access Selection set Fully configurable toolbars and buttons Summary function"

"Earlier this year, I wrote about several add-ins for Google's Chrome Browser that enhance its accessibility as a web browser. Today, I'm writing about how to use Chrome, with these add-ins, on PC's where Chrome has not been installed."

"The openWeb Browser is a browser that helps solve that problem by giving the internet a more readable style on your iPhone (and iPhone 5) and iPad. * The default font is OpenDyslexic: a free open-source font designed to be easy to read, especially for dyslexic readers. This font looks great on retina displays. * The colors have slightly less contrast to help prevent glare. * Symbols are bolder, and darker, to help detect sentences and phrases. "

"This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities. Although Google already highlights accessibility features built into the Chrome browser or through add-ons, we have collected numerous other free tools that we feel further contribute to that mission. To this end, we have developed this searchable resource to locate tools that serve the particular challenges anyone might face while working in Chrome. On the right, you will find more information about this site, including definitions of terms and more information about the Chrome browser and assistive technology."

"ATbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help users customise the way they view and interact with web pages. The concept behind ATbar is simple: One toolbar to provide all of the functionality you would usually achieve through the use of different settings or products. Download ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, increase and decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use coloured overlays, readability and a dictionary to aid reading. Spell check forms and try word prediction when writing. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers. There are three versions of the ATbar toolbar."

"We make iPhone, iPod and iPad apps as well as browser extensions that declutter the video viewing experience"

"Free speech to text dictation software in a browser."

"Text Help has made a new toolbar available for free for anyone who uses Google Docs and the Chrome Browser. What is now possible is dual highlighted (two colors) text to speech in Google Docs! This is huge, an amazing benefit for our struggling readers, writers and researchers."

"Symbly is a new way to create, share, and go with visual supports, communication boards, visual schedules, social stories, and more. The primary design goals of Symbly are to provide a new tool for special education that: Makes it easy for beginners to create visual supports through the support of templates and examples created by experts Provides the tools that power users need to quickly create, manage, and share an entire library of visual supports Promotes a healthy community of parents and professionals focused on creating visual supports utilizing best practices Features an easy-to-use editor with great image search, drag-and-drop editing, and more Runs completely in the web browser without the need for any special plugins (no Flash, Silverlight, etc.) and is accessible from anywhere in the world Connects parents and therapists together more than ever before through ease of use, sharing capabilities, and real-time collaborative editing Provides the best mobile experience possible, to allow you to view and edit your supports on the go."

"VoiceNote offers excellent voice-to-text. It is a free app for Google Chrome that can be added to the browser simply by going to the Chrome Web Store and installing it. (A Google/GMail account is required.) VoiceNote opens as a dictation window, as pictured below. This can be a small window that sits on top of a document that is being written. Or, it can occupy the entire screen."

"Offline speech recognizer for chrome. This app uses the new built in speech feature in chrome 11+ to create a useful powerful tool to use voice to do the normal typing jobs . The app is essentially an in the browser speech recognizer using which you can dictate sentences , edit the output and add them together to form paragraphs. "

"A new font - now available for free use on smartphones and in web browsers - may make it easier for people who suffer from dyslexia to communicate digitally. Some recent studies have shown that bottom-heavy fonts - those in which the letters appear a little thinker at the bottom than they do at the top - can provide relief for some dyslexic patients by making them less likely to invert letters and words while reading"

"There are several reasons why Chrome is regarded as the most popular browser in the world: It is considered the more secure than the competition, is one the speediest, and benefits from cloud based profiles. This last feature is particularly useful for those interested in assistive technology because it allows the user to become untethered from the device. "

"Today I am introducing you to a set of awesome tools that allow users to easily select any part of a text and hear it in the voice and accent they want. These tools can be very helpful for language teachers. Students can use them to impprove their pronunciation and develop their reading skills. All these tools are easy to use and above all free of charge. Most of these tools are extensions that you can install on your browser."

Readability is a free web and mobile app with a simple purpose: to deliver a great reading experience. It turns virtually any web page into a clean, comfortable reading view. You can also sync articles for reading later as you surf around the web. Readability works on your web browser, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone, giving you the flexibility to read anytime, anywhere.

"WebSummarizer automatically creates summaries from web pages, documents and plain text. The summaries consist of the most important content and keywords. WebSummarizer presents the summaries as a structured outline and as a Visual Summary. The Visual Summary and the structured outline are interactive content maps that users can navigate in their browsers by keywords to instantly see the key summaries in context. "

"Welcome to our free switch accessible games and demos area. Play the games online in your browser. You can download stand-alone versions of some games for Windows to play offline."

"This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities. Although Google already highlights accessibility features built into the Chrome browser or through add-ons, we have collected numerous other free tools that we feel further contribute to that mission."

"Chrome Toolbox is a resource site that highlights free accessibility apps and extensions for Google's Chrome browser."