Visual Impairment
To accommodate visual disabilities, including blindness, Donka provides students with any needed software and/or hardware they require to use a computer with independence. Products include screen magnification software, screen reading software, enlarged keyboards, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scanning software and hardware, Closed Circuit Television, and even a Braille printer.
Screen magnification software: ZoomText is a fully integrated magnifier and screen reader for windows. It can magnify any windows program for 2x to 16x and speak all Windows components, echo typing and read multipage documents. It includes a built-in-text-to-speech, advanced font smoothing, multiple zoom windows, cursor enhancements, color filtering and tracking and speech setting for voice, rate, pitch and verbosity. Who benefits? Individuals who require large print to read, certain colors to enhance reading, and speech output to assist in reading text. For information on this product contact AiSquared at www.aisquared.com. 
Enlarged keyboards: Intellikeys / Intellitalk is a powerful, easy-to-use alternative keyboard that plugs directly into the standard keyboard port and runs any software that responds to keyboard commands. It comes with various overlays including, arrows, alphabet, basic writing, numbers and QWERTY. The Intellitalk program is a word processor that combines speech output, screen magnification, and can be used with the Intellikeys keyboard. Who benefits from Intellikeys / Intellitalk? Children and adults, developing readers, individuals with impaired motor involvement, speech impairment, and vision impairment. For information on this product contact Intellitools, Inc. at www.intellitools.com.
Closed Circuit TV (CCTV): Optelec Clearview 700 is a computer compatible video magnifier that connects to any IBM/IBM Clone or Macintosh computer. It works as a stand alone video magnifier. or with a computer with a split screen magnifier. Who benefits? Persons who require large print to read text, and need magnification to see printed images. For information on this product contact Optelec U.S., Inc. at www.optelec.com.
Screen Reading software: JAWS for Windows is Screen Reading Software that works with your PC to provide access to today’s most widely used software applications and the Internet. With its internal, multi-lingual speech synthesizer and your PC sound card and speakers, information from the screen is read aloud or output to a refreshable Braille keyboard, providing technology to access a wide variety of information. Who benefits? Individuals who are visually impaired and have high reading and word processing skills. JAWS is the most commonly used in the workplace by blind users and requires good memory and the ability to learn and use two software programs simultaneously. For information on this product contact Freedom Scientific, Inc. at www.freedomscientific.com.
Scanning Software: OPENBook Scanning and Reading software. OPENBook is software developed for blind and visually impaired individuals to read, edit, and manage scanned images from any printed material. Once scanned, OPENBook converts material into electronic information to be read aloud by the speech synthesizer and displayed on the screen. OPENBook works with standard Windows menus, dialogs and commands, and comes with a full e-mail functionality through OutLook Express. It Includes full word processing capabilities including the ability to fill out forms. Who benefits? Individuals who require large print or speech output. Users should read and use word processing. For information on this product contact Freedom Scientific, Inc. at www.freedomscientific.com.
Braille Translation Software: Duxbury Braille Translator is a complete Braille translator / word processor for use by sighted and blind, by those who know Braille and those who do not. It includes built-in Nemeth math translation, MS Word support, Braille graphic file imports, foreign language support and much more. For information on this product contact Duxbury Systems, Inc. at www.duxburysystems.com.
Braille Embosser – Romeo Braille Printer is a Braille output printer. Who Benefits? Individuals who are blind and use Braille, teachers who use Braille. For information on this product contact Enabling Technologies, Inc. at www.brailler.com.
