“Computer accessibility” (also known as Accessible computing) refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability or severity of impairment. This software is used to enable use of a computer by a person with a disability or impairment. To learn more about assistive technology at UNCC, visit the UNCC Campus Accessibility page.
Orca is a free and open source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and GTK+, Qt and Java Swing/SWT applications).
Read&Write is a discreet, customizable toolbar that integrates reading, writing, studying, and research support tools with common applications. The software supports individuals of all ages and abilities with reading and writing, learning disabilities, or learning English.
Visolve is the software that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminate colors for various people including people with color vision deficiency, commonly called color blindness. In addition to distinguishing colors and finding a specific color, it aims to help people with color blindness:
Visolve can execute the following three types of color transformation, filtering, and hatching:
When people with color blindness apply, for example, Red-Green transform, if they keep the above transformation rule in mind and see color changes, they could guess a normal color. Moreover, Red-Green transform reflects the degree of color saturation into its brightness regularly. So they could know not only the difference between red and green but also the difference between two reds, i.e., the degrees of red.