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"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"

" Be nice to those on your mailing list who may have low vision, and consider using a font with consistent stroke widths, open counterforms, and pronounced ascenders and descenders to make reading easier for them. Three fonts you may already be familiar with that have these features are; Century Schoolbook, Arial, and Frutiger Bold."

"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. "

"A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour. OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers."

this font was especially designed for people with dyslexia. When they use it they make fewer errors in reading, according to a research study. It makes reading easier for them and takes less effort.

watch the video. makes sense

"Writer is the coolest, fastest, distraction-free writing tool around. No fonts, no bold, no italics-just you and your words. - Fast and distraction-free - Saves your writing automatically - Choose any foreground/background color - Custom fonts and line spacing"

an accessible YouTube site w/ large font, simple navigation and device access.  I enjoy it for its simlicity

"AppWriter is the first text editor for the iPad to offer users of all ages with reading and writing disabilites the necessary tools for unlocking a world of information. AppWriter is packed with incredible assistive features. All tools and features are seamlessly integrated and comprise context based word suggestions, text-to-speech and the special Dyslexie-font. "

"AppWriter is the first text editor for the iPad to offer users of all ages with reading and writing disabilites the necessary tools for unlocking a world of information. AppWriter is packed with incredible assistive features. All tools and features are seamlessly integrated and comprise context based word suggestions, text-to-speech, OCR and the special Dyslexie-font. "

"Make great wordsalads out of documents or sentences that matter to you! With Wordsalad you can make beautiful word clouds, super customized with different fonts, colors and words layouts."

"Create beautiful detailed photo word clouds with your images and text! Choose your own words, select your favorite photo, pick a font and color palette and turn them in a work of art to impress friends and family. The result can be stored as a PNG, JPEG image or even a PDF document to allow for printing at extremely high resolutions."

"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."

The Google eBookstore is now open. Lots of public domain books. the visual display is good, with options of increasing font size and line spacing.

a simple tool for creating animated text displays. The animated text displays you create with Wondersay can be embedded into a blog post or wiki page. To create an animated text display just type a few words then click the Wondersay This icon. If you don't like the display that is automatically generated you can customize the colors, fonts, and animation effects until you're satisfied with the display.

eReader software from Ray Kurzweil, Blio preserves printed format, including layout, fonts, and images true to the book's original form, and in color. A synthesized voice reads the book aloud, synchronized with follow-along word highlighting, Blio offers a large selection of books that otherwise don't translate well into eContent: especially cookbooks, travel guides, how-to books, schoolbooks, and children's stories.

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications. Major highlights include: Support for popular applications including web browsers, email clients, internet chat programs and office suites Built in speech synthesizer supporting over 20 languages announcement of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position Support for many refreshable braille displays Ability to run entirely from a USB stick or other portable media without the need for installation Easy to use talking installer

"APHont™ was developed by the American Printing House for the Blind specifically for low vision readers and is offered free-of-charge. APHont is available for both Mac and PC users."