http://www.northerngrid.org/sen/Menu-L.htm
"SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/headpointer/download
The Head-Tracking Pointer provides an inexpensive and easily-used mouse replacement for those unable to use traditional pointing devices. Using only software and any Web-cam, this application allows users to point and click with character-level accuracy by simply aiming their face. Unlike other head-tracking solutions, the Head-Tracking Pointer does not require special-purpose hardware, head gear, or tracking aids, such as retro-reflective dots.

Calculators

Calculator Home Page for Windows high functioning calculator. Free download. http://www.calculator.org/ Wide assortment of all types of calculators

Edmark Algebra Calculator - Download a free algebra calculator which shows its work as it solves its problem. Other on-screen calculators are available also. http://www.edmark.com/free/

http://www.sensorysoftware.com/software/bigcalculator/index.html
A large calculator for Windows. You can either on the buttons with the mouse or use the numeric keypad to perform calculations. The size of the calculator buttons is determined by the WIDTH of the calculator window.

http://www.calculator.org/download.html/
This is a set of easy to read calculators that help develop math and science skills. It can be used with windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and PDA with Windowsce.

http://www.compilerabuse.com/projects/gc/gc_help.htm
GC (graphing calculator) can be used for building two-dimensional graphs of functions.

Collaboration

http://www.atutor.ca/acollab/index.php
ACollab is a fully accessible, open source, multi-group, Web-based collaborative work environment. ACollab is available as a work groups addon for ATutor 1.4+ , and as a standalone collaborative work environment that will run on its own. ACollab is ideal for groups working at a distance developing documentation, collaborating on research, or writing joint papers, and ideal for online educators who wish to add group learning activities to their ATutor courses.

http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/download/download.htm
Compendium provides a methodological framework, plus an evolving suite of tools, for collective sense-making and group memory. Validated in both small and large scale business projects, it is the result of over a decade's research and development at the intersection of collaborative modeling, organizational memory, computer-supported argumentation and meeting facilitation.

http://www.atutor.ca/acomm/index.php
ACOMM is an accessible Java-based Instant Messaging and Whiteboard tool. It has been designed to allow assistive technology users to participate in synchronous Internet-based communication activities that have traditionally been inaccessible to them.

Coloring and drawing

TuxPaint http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
An easy to use paint program. It has auditory feedback. Uses both the keyboard and the mouse.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~rnarkov/kids/draw.html Drawing for Children

http://www.addersorfreeware/doodlepadhtml
Doodle is a simple drawing and coloring program which includes stamps (small pre-drawn pictures to color) ofWinnie The Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Gopher, Roo and Kanga to add to your pictures.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/kids/draw.html
This is an easy to use drawing program with many activities to explore.

http://www.kidsdomain.corn/down/pc/rubadub.html
Teach kids to mouse with this fun art application! Beginning mousers sometimes have trouble with the "click and drag". This tim little coloring book is designed with the tiniest tykes in mind. Kids can color pictures by dragging the mouse over them. The rubbing reveals colorfiul surprises underneath the black and white features!

Cursors

Cursors may need to be enlarged or animated for better visibility. There are several sites on the Internet, here are a few:

Windows
http://joescursors.tripod.com/HVCurPg.htm
http://www.supercursers.com Super Cursors is a free utility lets you color your windows cursor.
http://www.tucows.com/preview/16285 These are very large and colorful cursors. Downloads and software from Tucows the largest online software download site.

Macintosh
http://www.tucows.com/preview/204209 CursorAnimator lets you substitute five system cursors (arrow, watch, text, cross-hair and plus) with a static or animated cursor of your choice. If your Macintosh supports color, you can even get color cursors.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/204209/
This software has animated and brightly colored cursors. It is for mac computers only.

http://rbx.de/big-cursors/
This software allows you to enlarge your cursor. Each of the enlarged cursors are the maximum of 32 by 32 pixels. It is windows based software.

http://joescursors.tripod.com/HVCurPg.htm
Collection of large and brightly animated cursors. This software is intended for non-profit use only. It is windows based software.

http://www.anicursor.com/
There are many cursors types available at this site. Some of the cursors are freeware and some are shareware. Also there are instructions on how to create your own cursors. this is windows based software.

http://onlineconferencingsystems.com/large_pointers_1.htm
Over 80 additional pointers and cursors for those with visual or perceptual difficulties. Icon styles include animated, colored, large, I-beams and circles.

Cursar control

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/headpointer/download
The Head-Tracking Pointer provides an inexpensive and easily-used mouse replacement for those unable to use traditional pointing devices. Using only software and any Web-cam, this application allows users to point and click with character-level accuracy by simply aiming their face. Unlike other head-tracking solutions, the Head-Tracking Pointer does not require special-purpose hardware, head gear, or tracking aids, such as retro-reflective dots. Users train the system by tipping their head left and right. Custom-tracking algorithms provide reliable operation in a wide range of environmental conditions. Head motion is translated into pointer motion by custom filters that provide both high speed for long movements and high accuracy for fine control, without switching modes. All clicking variations are supported, including right clicking, double clicking, and click-and-drag.

http://www.u3i.info/
Whistling-driven mouse pointer. An alternative way how to control your mouse pointer.

http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/openEyes.cgi
Open Eyes is an open-source open-hardware toolkit for low-cost real-time eye tracking. The purpose of openEyes is to provide a hardware design and a set of software tools useful for the analysis of eye movement data. The development of openEyes stems from the recognition in the eye tracking and human computer interaction communities that while the cost of hardware for eye tracking has precipitously dropped in the recent past that the there is lack of freely available software to implement even long-established eye-tracking methods..

Display

http://www.magnifiers.org/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=307
Intended to ease reading on a computer monitor by displaying text in large fonts in foreground an background colors of the user's choosing. Works with Microsoft's Text-to-Speech, reads web pages from the Internet and let you browse text-only.

E-Text / e-Books

(Electronic Text) free books and text online - Electronic text provides access to digital materials for students with learning, sensory and physical disabilities. The Internet provides many sites for gathering e-text. Here are some links to explore e-text further:
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/booksfindex.html
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edkbrown/rteacher.htrnl
http://www.gigglepoetw.com/
http://www.childrenstory.com/tales/index.html
http://www.accessiblebookcollection.org/
http://wowio.cornlindex.asp

Google has a book search in their search engine now. Go to Google and then go to "More". Type in what you are looking for and voila! You just might find it.

http://amis.sourceforge.net/
AMIS is a software program that you can use to read DAISY books. AMIS is a multilingual player for reading books complying with DAISY standards. AMIS is free of charge, open source DAISY book playback software.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Illustrated and animated children's storybooks.

http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html
A collection of digital books designed for use by people with disabilities. Many books can be downloaded for free and used with Kurzweil.

http://www.microsoft.com/reader/default.asp
Microsoft Reader is used to view certain eBooks on your computer. An additional piece of software, 'Microsoft Reader Text-to-Speech Package' can be downloaded in order to speak your eBooks to you, giving you access to all manner of novels and non-fiction eBooks without the need to read them from the screen.

http://www.gameguariwn.com/niagazrnes.html has a great list of on-line magazine sites that are very motivating for kids to use with text-to-speech software.

Gaming

http://www.agrip.org.uk/FrontPage
This site was created so that the community can learn about how to install, use and develop the software they produce. Their aim is to provide access to the mainstream gaming community not by producing specialist "accessible games" but by making mainstream games - and their associated extension and development tools - accessible. We want blind people to not only play the games that sighted people do, but to be involved in the online communities that surround them and to extend them, creating new games and applications with them; something that sighted people have enjoyed a great deal over the years.

http://www.arcess.com/demo2.cfm
These simple switch games are easy to play and are designed to be widely accessible for players who have Muscular Dystrophy, Cerebral Palsy, Spinal Injury, Head Injury or other physical disabilities. They can be played as single switch games, speech recognition games, expanded keyboard games (Intellikeys, Unicorn Keyboard, Concept Keyboard, Mini Keyboards), assistive technology researchers and vendors

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Build your own castle while learning about the history and parts of a castle.

http://www.brillsoft.com/Index_files/Page552.htm
You control a hot air balloon on the planet Gull. Direction is controlled by entering different ‘jetstreams.’ Jetstream trader is a very complex single switch game for people with gross motor skills only. The objective is given at the start of each level, you have to deliver cargo to earn credit. You can then use the credit for more gas. No gas, no flame, no go!

http://www.afb.org/prodProfile.asp?ProdID=718&SourceID=70
CCT Solitaire is a fully-accessible traditional solitaire game. Keyboard commands perform all functions. Sound effects are included.

http://www.afb.org/prodProfile.asp?ProdID=688&SourceID=70
Crazy Darts is an online, audio-based game allows you to throw a dart at a moving target. When the game starts, sound comes out of either the right or left speaker and moves to the opposite speaker. When you believe the sound is directly in front of you, you press the spacebar to throw the dart.

http://www.danzgames.com/memory.htm
In this game, you choose how many sounds you would like to be a part of a pattern that you will remember. Then, you listen to a single sound, and try to remember it. If you're successful, a new sound is added and you must remember both sounds. This continues, and continues, until you cannot remember anymore and make a mistake.

http://www.brillsoft.com/Index_files/Page603.htm
Consists of 4 single switch games for users with special needs. These are cause and effect games for users with special needs. Download it to try! After all it is completely free, however if you are able, a donation to keep the Web site running would be appreciated.

http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/2/switch-downloads.htm 70+ single switch PC games available for FREE download!

http://www.danzgames.com/maze.htm
Maze Craze is a nice piece of freeware that enthusiasts of maze and puzzle games will enjoy. The game currently comes with eleven mazes for you to try to escape. Once you're finished with those, you can use the included, accessible, maze editor to create your own fully-featured mazes. Your mazes can include walls, doors, keys, and up to a 100x100 grid.

http://www.igda.org/accessibility/
Games play an important part in our culture and help add to our quality of life. The Game Accessibility SIG was formed to help the game community strive towards creating mainstream games that are universally accessible to all, regardless of disability. Through our work we hope to help bridge the knowledge gap about how to increase the accessibility of mainstream games that exists between disability groups and game developers and publishers.

Bavisoft has changed the computer gaming industiy. In place ofgraphics, audio games are powered purely with sound imagery, opening a world ofentertainment for the blind and visually impaired. Bavisoft provides game players with music and sound quality, creating a gaming experience. http://www.bavisoft.com/index.htm

This site offers free activities and several programs. Example: Funk in the Trunk is a free full-version download of a virtual car stereo, which teens will love. http://www.blindsoftware.com

http://www.brillsoft.com/Index_files/Page654.htm
Rockets! Is a single switch game which introduces the concept of scanning. That is you press the switch when the pointer is aligned with one of the buttons. You load rockets into a container, then press fire and watch the fireworks! Rockets is an intermediate level switch game for users with special needs. It can also be used with a mouse, this is configured on the opening screen.

http://www.ics.forth.gr/uachess/index.html
UA-Chess is a fully-functional chess game, developed by the Centre for Universal Access & Assistive Technologies of ICS-FORTH. UA-Chess can be played through a standard Web browser. Its distinctive characteristic is that it is designed to be Universally Accessible, i.e., it can be concurrently played by people with different abilities and preferences, including people with disabilities (e.g., low-vision, blind and hand-motor impaired).

http://www.adagame.org The ADA Game simulates how advocacy can promote positive changes in communities. Join in the discussions and work together to improve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in your community of choice in the areas of: Program Access, Public Accommodations, Transportation, Employment, and Communication.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/Hark/index.html
Hark The Sound is a really simple sound game intended for young kids who are visually impaired. It was inspired by my friend and colleague Diane Brauner and was written by Gary Bishop. It is free for educational and fun use.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Create your own model farm with silo, barn and chicken coop. Kids will choose crops and animals and what to grow to feed themselves and their animals. Kids set up their own streets, decide where to put different buildings, parks and shopping districts.

Graphics

http://www.freeology.com/graphicorgs

http://www.kaptech.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/PictureSlideShow.htm
Picture Slide Show lets you continuously displays all the pictures in a folder.

http://gliffy.com Allows you to use diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software. You can create many types ofdiagrams such as Flowcharts, wireframes, Floor plans, Network thagrams, UML diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram.

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer provides PDF files ofmany graphic organizers. With the hit ofa button they are available in Spanish also!

http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/ Alternative to Inspiration that is totally free. Doesn't have some ofthe supportive options that Inspiration has such as text to speech and wonderful graphics but the CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps.

http://www.inspiration.com has full-feature demos oftheir graphic organizer programs.

Joystick

http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1625
Joystick 2 Mouse lets you control your mouse and keyboard using your joystick or gamepad.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/292788
Turns a joystick into a mouse. It works on Windows 98/NT/2K/ME/XP.

Keyboarding

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/http://kavlon.org/index.php/10key
Kavlon 10-key keyboarding wordlist database is a utility to re-map a small set of keys to a larger set of keys and to use that mapping to allowing fast entry of words.

Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the person can control a mouse, trackball or other pointing device, he or she can send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window. Click-N-Type is a 32-bit application that requires Windows 95 or later. Freeware http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/

KeyStrokes http://www.assistiveware.com/index.php for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X is a filly- functional advanced virtual on-screen keyboard that allows you to type with a mouse, trackball, head pointer or other mouse emulator to type characters into any standard Macintosh application. Demo version available.

http://www.autohotkey.com/
AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can: Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Expand abbreviations as you type them.

http://www.free2u.org/freeware/system_utilities/tools_for_disabled/click-n-type_speech_package.html
Click-N-Type Speech Package v. 1.0 by Lake Software is more than just fun, Typing Sounds provide audible feedback, you may select one of the "Spoken Keys" options, as well as normal typewriter sounds. The feature "speaks" the keys back to you, letting you know you've hit the correct key and documentation on how to create "Spoken Keys" is included with the Click-N-Type help file, so people can create their own.

http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/
Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone who needs help using a physical keyboard with special consideration for the severely handicapped. Full featured virtual keyboard, Word prediction and completion, Fully configurable including macros, AutoClick and Scanning Modes.

http://www.inchwest.com/hkcontrol.html
Hotkeycontrol is the award winning solution to create keyboard shortcuts for routine tasks. These tasks include, but are not limited to opening files, ejecting cdrom drives, restarting the computer, typing frequently used text, controlling active windows, changing volume and recording macros. The list of configured hotkeys can be shown transparently using on screen display (OSD) which eliminates the need to remember the hotkeys contrary to conventional hotkey managers.

http://rapidkeys.netfirms.com/en/index.htm
RapidKeys intelligent virtual keyboard is an application intended to replace the keyboard by using a pointing device (mouse, trackball or similar device). Virtual keyboards are ideal for people with physical disabilities or for systems without a keyboard. RapidKeys is a virtual keyboard with some special features - it learns from what the user types and contextually suggests words that can be typed with a single click to obtain a greater speed of typing. It has user-defined autoexpandable abbreviations & a similar mechanism is used for names. An optional AutoCaps mechanism detects the end of sentences and temporarily switches for one capital letter.

http://www.polital.com/cntd/
CNTDesigner is a keyboard layout designer designed to work in conjunction with Click-N-Type V3+ by Lake Software. The combination of CNTDesigner and Click-N-Type will give the user complete freedom to design their own keyboards, controlling size and placement of all keys as well as the overall size of the keyboard. If none of the standard keyboards provided by Click-N-Type suit your fancy, and the Custom Alphabet just doesn't have enough flexibility to meet your creative needs, then the keyboard designer CNTDesigner is the add-on you use to design your own keyboard layout.

http://www.eventcorder.com/ec_downloads.htm
Eventcorder records and plays back Windows events. With Eventcorder, a sequence of keystrokes and mouse-clicks can be implemented at the touch of a single button.

http://kmag.sourceforge.net/
KMagnifier (or kmag, its unix name) is a small utility for Linux to magnify a part of the screen. It was initially written for KDE 1, before becoming dormant. The development was then picked up by me and KMagnifier got its new life. It is currently being maintained/developed actively. KMagnifier is very useful for people with visual disabilities and for those working in the fields of image analysis, web development etc.

http://www.compilerabuse.com/projects/kmrw/kmrw_help.htm
This program allows the user to record and later play back sequences of keyboard and mouse input.

http://www.shortkeys.com/lite.htm
Shortkeys Lite allows you to set up replacement text or paragraphs for any given number of user defined keystrokes. If you type a few characters, ShortKeys Lite will replace them with up to 3000 characters. If you find typing difficult then Shortkeys will make it more automatic.

http://www.gok.ca/gok.shtml
The gok project aims to enable users to control their computer without having to rely on a standard keyboard or mouse. Many individuals must control the computer using alternative input methods. Using innovative dynamic keyboard strategies, and leveraging gnome 2's built-in accessibility framework, the gok will make control more efficient and enable use of the gnome 2 desktop. With the right hardware support and the gok individuals will have full access to applications that support the AT SPI, and therefore, full access to the functionality these applications provide.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gtkeyboard/gtkeyboard.html
GTKeyboard is an application written in C with the aid of the Gimp Toolkit. It is intended to help users with physical disabilities to enter text into a simple editor, as well as to help them use other X11 applications that require keyboard input. GTKeyboard allows the user to press keys on an onscreen keyboard that will either be entered into a simple text editor that GTKeyboard provides, or into the application of choice that the user specifies by clicking on the window. It has also been used by people who have strange keyboard layouts, and by people who for one reason or another cannot use a keyboard with the machine in question.

http://www.camiweb.com/zenkey/
ZenKEY is comprised of a series of menus, each containing items which perform "actions". You can "fire" these actions by clicking on the item, or pressing any key-combination you choose.

Magnification

Magnification for the computer, including freeware/shareware and reviews of commercial products. http://www.magnifiers.org

http://camtech2000.net/Programs/mouscm10.zip
Have you ever been to a web site or tried to read documents where they used a font so small you had to really strain your eyes to read it? Or have you ever wanted to get greater detail of a graphic? MouseCam is a free small utility that magnifies anything your cursor is over up to 20x normal size. Win95/98/Me/Win2K/XP

http://www.ancientsoft.com/ezmagnifier.htm
EzMagnifier is a small utility to magnify a portion of the screen where you can choose the zooming factor and you can resize the magnified portion itself to suite your needs. You can capture the image of the magnified area and the program saves it in the same folder of the program and you can save multiple captures as the program save them sequentially.

http://www.b-zone.de/software/lens.htm
Another Lens displays a magnified view of the area of the mouse cursor. Quite handy, for example, for drawing software. The window contents can be locked, and saved to a file or copied to the clipboard for taking screenshots. Several additional options, like crosshairs, resizing the window and hiding the caption bar and/or main menu. Stays on top of other windows optionally.

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
Virtual Magnifying Glass is an easy-to-use screen magnification tool for Windows.

http://www.ohsht.org/izoom_index.htm
Redefine your computing experience with iZoom, a Professional Grade Screen Magnifier and Reader built into a single application. Magnify your screen anywhere from 1.5 to 16 times while having it read out to you, all ready with color/cursor enhancements and image smoothing.

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/
This software allows you to magnify portions of your computer screen up to fifteen times the normal magnification. The program includes a special interpolation routine to maintain details when magnifying, as well as the ability to magnify the mouse cursor.

http://www.digitalmantra.com/fatbits/
Fatbits magnifies an area of the screen and paints the giant pixels into a new window, which may be useful if you have a visual impairment. To make the screen even more accessible, you can modify the colours it displays.

http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=9955
Super Magnify allows you to magnify portions of your screen up to 15 times. The program includes a special interpolation routine to maintain details when magnifying, as well as the ability to magnify the mouse cursor. In addition, Super Magnify displays your (x, y) pixel coordinates on the screen, and the RGB values corresponding to the cursor's position.

http://www.magnifiers.org/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=307
Intended to ease reading on a computer monitor by displaying text in large fonts in foreground an background colors of the user's choosing. Works with Microsoft's Text-to-Speech, reads web pages from the Internet and let you browse text-only.

http://www.baum.ro/eng/products/galileo/galileo.html
Galileo 4 is the screen magnification software for Windows NT/2000/XP developed by BAUM. Though Galileo 4 is an independent and autonomous program that offers every comfort of a modern screen magnification software, it has especially been developed for use with the screen reader Virgo 4. By combining these two solutions all former compatibility problems between screen readers and screen magnification software now belong to the past.

Maps

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/bats/index.shtml
Spatial information is often presented in the form of maps that viewers actively explore to learn about an area. People who cannot see cannot share the benefits of such a visual representation, and have traditionally relied on audio descriptions, tactile maps, guidance from others, and even trial and error when learning the layout of a region. On-going assistive technology research has yielded a number of promising techniques to help people who have visual impairments plan daily walks and get directions, but little has been done to promote the same kind of spatial awareness provided by visual maps. The Blind Audio Tactile Mapping System (BATS) project focuses on the latter area of research by helping people without sight access and explore spatial information.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Helps students learn about the United States and World geography. Following is a list of the interactive maps that teach about continents, countries, states, capitals, boarders, physical features and cultural movements.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Walk an individual through the continents. It prints U.S. and World maps from a single page to eight pages (nearly seven feet across).

Math

Calculator Home Page for Windows high functioning calculator. Free download. http://www.calculator.org/
Wide assortment of all types of calculators

National Library ofVirtual Manipulatives encourages active engagement in mathematical thinking and learning - helping students visualize relationships and applications.
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvrn/nav/index.html
http://www.vincentwortham.com/mathFlash.html and
http://cybersleuthkids.comlmathflashlmathflash.html
have flash card programs for drill and practice.

Graph Paper- never buy it again! There are many sites that offer free graph paper or programs to develop your own. Great to use with students who straggle lining up their problems. http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com/graphpaper.htm or varied forms of graph paper at http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/

http://incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/ Offers on-line graph and grid paper in PDF format. There are various links from this site to support your graphing needs.

MathType is an interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. 30-day trial provided.
http://www.rnathtype.com/en/

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~palmer/mathflash.html
This software teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with drills and practices. It keeps score and has math skills from kindergarten to adult. It also has a digital voice feedback.

http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/
MathPlayer converts mathematical expressions embedded in web pages into speech. Text-to-speech generators (which are useful if you want to use the computer but cannot read) may not always recognise mathematical expressions, but MathPlayer will speak them in a meaningful way.

Edmark Algebra Calculator - Download a free algebra calculator which shows its work as it solves its problem. Other on-screen calculators are available also. http://www.edmark.com/free/

http://www.sensorysoftware.com/software/bigcalculator/index.html
A large calculator for Windows. You can either on the buttons with the mouse or use the numeric keypad to perform calculations. The size of the calculator buttons is determined by the WIDTH of the calculator window.

http://www.calculator.org/download.html/
This is a set of easy to read calculators that help develop math and science skills. It can be used with windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and PDA with Windowsce.

http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov
MDE SDK is a reusable software library that generates text, sound and visual representations of graphs found in both math and science applications. Visually-impaired computer users access these alternative text and sound descriptions through the use of a screen reader and standard computer speakers.

http://www.compilerabuse.com/projects/gc/gc_help.htm
GC (graphing calculator) can be used for building two-dimensional graphs of functions.

Mouse

http://www.beenleigss.gld.edu.au/requested_sites/mousepractice/ This site has some great interactive activities for learning to use a mouse.

http://www.intelore.com/reflex provides a game that is available to download.

http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/Classes/Intforkids/cns1.html provides introduction to pointing and clicking.

http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/mouse has various links for providing skills in using a mouse. Also links for specifically designed for left handers!

http://www.polital.com/pnc/
Point-N-Click is a FREE stand-alone on-screen virtual mouse designed for anyone with a disability that makes it difficult or impossible to click a physical computer mouse. As long as they can move a mouse, trackball or other pointing device, they can send mouse clicks to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window and even many that are full screen. This software is a virtual mouse. It has right click, left click, double left click, click and drag, scroll, double right click, alt key, shift key, ctrl key and scroll key. It is a very good virtual mouse.

ToggleMouse lets you assign a keyboard action to anything the mouse does, so you can point and click with your keys. It also lets you change your pointer and it hides the mouse pointer while you type. You can record a mouse click and assign it to a keyboard stroke-- you could even surfthe Web or use Microsoft Word without ever touching your mouse. It has many, many features for controlling mouse function. Programming the "Panic Stopper" will allow you to ignore those repeated little mouse clicks some students insist on. Do a search to find this Freeware as it is available but the company has quit producing it. http://wwwsoftpile.com/Desktop/Desktop_Utilities/Review_01645_index.html

http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ylab/yamakaku/AutoMouse/
AutoMouse is a software which controls the mouse and key-inputs in your place. You can make a program by combining Mouse-operating-commands, such as `Click this picture', `Double-click this picture', etc. When you execute the program, the mouse moves automatically. Key inputs are also available.

http://lang.tivi.pl/software.htm
Click-Catch(C) available options:
You may choose which button to simulate between left/right/middle mouse buttons. You can also set single or double click.
There are two "hot keys" available.

http://www.sensorysoftware.com/software/dwellclick/index.html
Dwelling is resting the mouse over one area of the screen for a specified time. The dwell click software allows you to perform left-click, right-click and double clicks, and even drag things around the screen. This is ideal for those who can operate the mouse pointer, but not the buttons. For example, users of a head mouse such as the Smart NAV can use this software to control mouse operated Windows programs.

http://morseall.org/
Morseall allows people with limited mobility to use a computer. Morseall allows you to control your Linux computer by tapping morse code on the mouse buttons. The left button is for dots. Hold it longer for dashes. The right button is for dashes. It is faster than holding down the Left. The middle button is for "finishing" and repeating characters. If you can control one, two, or three switches, you can use morseall at at your own pace. Morseall can use your existing accessibility switches! Ask a rehabilitation professional to solder a jack onto a "sacrificial" three-button mouse. It should be easy to hook up your current switch set for long-term morse-code computer use.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/mousesmoothing
Mouse Smoothing Software is assistive software for people with hand tremor. It is intended primarily for individuals with Essential (non-specific) Hand Tremor who have difficulty using a computer mouse. Significant improvement has been found for people who can basically control their hand, apart from a moderate degree of tremor.

http://www.ex-d.net/products/utils/mousewrap/default.asp
This software makes the mouse pointer circulate around the screen instead of stopping at the edges, therefore moving the pointer requires less movement by you. 'Movement pattern recognition' also gives you access to custom actions e.g. cut and paste.

http://camtech2000.net/Programs/mouscm10.zip
Have you ever been to a web site or tried to read documents where they used a font so small you had to really strain your eyes to read it? Or have you ever wanted to get greater detail of a graphic? MouseCam is a free small utility that magnifies anything your cursor is over up to 20x normal size. Win95/98/Me/Win2K/XP

Music

http://www.inclusive.co.uk/downloads/downloads.shtml#cdplayer
A free, switch accessible CD player. Features: two different graphic styles, one or two switch access, mouse and keyboard access, automatically remembers settings, suitable for controlling from an IntelliKeys or Concept Keyboard

http://fullmeasure.co.uk/TouchCD/
A very simple switch controlled CD player

News

http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblerss/index.htm
Accessible RSS News Feeds is widely used by the weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines or their full text, and even attached multimedia files.

Operating System

Don't forget that each operating system comes with its own supports, "To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential." To learn more about the built-in solutions that is available on your computer:
http://www.rnicrosoft.com/enable/products/default.aspx for PC computers using Microsoft products. http://www.apple.com/disability/ for Macintosh users.

MS Agent Components and Tools include: MSAgent.exe, Microsoft Agent character files, Text-to-speech engines: http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/agent2/tv_enua.exe, SAPI 4.0 runtime support, Speech recognition engines, Speech control panel, all available in the Microsoft page
http://www.microsoft.com/MSAGENT/downloads/user.asp

Other links for free assistive technology:
Macintosh - http://trace.wisc.edu/worldlcomputeraccess/mac/macshare.html
Windows http://trace.wisc.edu/world/computer access/win95/win95sha.htrnl

http://www.eklhad.net/linux/jupiter/
This software makes Linux accessible to the blind user.

PC Utilities

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/AutoRefresher-for-IE/3000-2366_2-10293579.html?tag=lst-0-1
Reloader lets you automatically reload predefined sets of programs. There are three main ways to use it. You can start Windows with the same programs that were running when you last shut down. You can start Windows with the same set of programs every time. Or you can load predefined sets of programs on demand rather than at startup. To the extent possible, Reloader will restore programs to their original state, positioning windows as they were when you saved the layout. This would be great for people who need to have assistive technology programs such as an on-screen keyboard or screen reader accessible as soon as the computer starts up.

http://desktop.google.com/index.html
Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/gtalksearch.html
G-TalkSearch is a plug-in for Google desktop search. It is an innovative piece of binary (.Net CLR Binary) written to enable people with disabilities to use Google desktop search. Well not only people with disabilities, but a lot of ohter fun loving people who want to talk with Google desktop search can use this. Use Google desktop search with your voice. Command it and it takes you to webpages, cache files etc

http://fullmeasure.co.uk/TouchCD/
A very simple switch controlled CD player

http://web4all.atrc.utoronto.ca/html/atrc/about_e.html
Web-4-All is the first technology in the world that makes it possible for users to carry with them their user interface preferences (including system preferences, browser preferences and assistive technology preferences) and quickly configure public terminals or learning management applications accordingly.

Podcatcher

http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblepodcatcher/
Accessible Podcatcher is a simple way for blind and screen reader users to use podcasts. Podcasting is a way to distribute audio files on the web. Accessible Podcatcher lets you access these podcasts. You can save them to disk, have your MP3 player transfer them for portable listening, and export and import lists of podcasts to send to other people.

Radio

http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbc/index.htm
The British Broadcast Company (BBC) allows people to listen to vast quantities of their radio output up to a week after it is first broadcast on one of their dozens of radio stations. This service, called Listen Again, relies on a web browser interface that might be difficult for some users, especially people with screen readers. Accessible BBC Listen Again allows you to access the BBC's Listen Again content through a truly accessible interface designed to work with any screen reader. Select programmes and stations with the cursor keys and listen to them at your leisure. You get easy and simple access to hours of programming, including the ever-popular "The Archers" and "In Touch". The new version lets you access all of the Listen Again content among many other improvements (thanks to everyone for their suggestions!) It does still require that you have already installed something that can play Real Audio, which is the format the BBC uses for their radio on the Internet. The official program you can use, RealPlayer from Real, is very difficult to use and pops up lots of confusing messages. We suggest trying out Real Alternative from Edskes: this is free and is much easier to use. Just download, install and forget about it.

http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessibleradio/index.htm
Accessible Radio is a way to listen to radio stations on the internet that is easy and simple to use and is designed to work with any screen reader. It lets you listen to any of the BBC Radio stations.

http://www.audiobookradio.net/index.php
Audio Radio: Listen to spoken word Internet radio station broadcasting 24/7. We are a free radio station dedicated to broadcasting stories, drama, poetry and interviews. We broadcast popular audio books by best-selling authors, as well as promoting new and unsigned writers from around the world. Easily listen to radio online from work or home. Free non-music entertainment for the more discerning listener. Listen to popular audio books narrated by professional actors . View our week's programme schedule to see the great variety of choice on offer

Safety

Child Proof is a program that protect your computer from children by accident pressing wrong buttons or key. It hides all windows, the toolbar at the bottom and the desktop and replaces it by a toolbar with programs you allow your child to execute. This avoids most problems when children use the computer (but not all).
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/cproof.html

A big thank you to my friend Bob from Winsted, CT for the following information on screen readers:

Switch

http://www.cliu.org/se/assistive_technology.aspx then go to "Launch Assistive Technologies Resource CD" then to PowerPoint Ideas. There are several already made PowerPoint presentations designed for switch users.

http://www.deafblindonline.org.uk/software.html#sf
Switch-activated software that lets you make slideshows and sequences of pictures, videos and sounds for use with one or two switches.

http://www.sensorysoftware.com/software/switchdriver/index.html
To ensure that your switches can be used with all applications we supply our switch software. The software is available for both USB and serial switches.

http://www.northerngrid.org/sen/Menu-L.htm
"SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning."

http://www.inclusive.co.uk/downloads/downloads.shtml#cdplayer
A free, switch accessible CD player. Features: two different graphic styles, one or two switch access, mouse and keyboard access, automatically remembers settings, suitable for controlling from an IntelliKeys or Concept Keyboard

http://www.aacinstitute.org/Resources/ProductsandServices/SSPT/intro.html
Single Switch Performance Test (SSPT) measures how fast a person can activate or release a single switch or activate it multiple times. SSPT monitors the mouse buttons. SSPT reports can be helpful in choosing the most effective switch, identifying the best position, and monitoring the training process. (A switch adapter or modified mouse is needed to connect a switch to the PC. Instructions for modifying a mouse are available as well. AAC Institute also sells a modified mouse.)

http://www.inclusive.co.uk/downloads/downloads.shtml#serialdriver
A stand-alone serial switch driver for Windows, programmed to send the standard keys of Space and Return. For single or two switch access. Option to send a continuous stream of keypresses or a single keypress. Send a selection of other commonly used keypresses such as function keys and number keys.

http://ace-centre.hostinguk.com/index.cfm?pageid=83216478-D613-62F1-C85EEB3021CA6B57
Software that enables Windows to be controlled by one or two switches,a joystick, a trackerball or a headpointer. This new upgraded version of SAW has many additions and feautures to make creating interfaces easy for those who use alternative inputs.

http://ace-centre.hostinguk.com/index.cfm?pageid=83216478-D613-62F1-C85EEB3021CA6B57
For the switch user, accessing the essentially mouse-driven Windows environment appears to be a formidable task. Not any more. Introducing SAW5 (Special Access to Windows) - it's software that enables Windows to be controlled by one or two switches,a joystick, a trackerball or a headpointer. SAW has many additions and features to make creating interfaces easy for those who use alternative inputs.

Symbols

http://www.symbolworld.org/ has many on-line stories, some recipes, poetry, news stories, etc. written and supported with picture icons.

http://www.sclera.be/English/index.htm A resource of 1041 free symbols (pictograms).

http://www.deafblindonline.org.uk/software.html#ssm
An accessory for making symbol sets for use in EdWord and EdWeb. It will instantly convert a file full of images into the correct format to be used in EdWord and EdWeb.

http://www.symbolnet.org/sv/index.html
Building a Symbol and ConceptCoding Editor for CMS, based on CCF(ConceptCodingFramework). Also building tools for ConceptCoding administration (perhaps in another project).

Teaching

Everyday Skills
http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/everyday-skills
Switch-activated software that supports teachers in teaching the young people who are deafblind in learning everyday skills.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
This software teaches children to know and make the twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

http://www.createdbyteachers.com/rnodchecklist.html
http://www.addcentre.co.uk/modificationchecklists.htm is specific to ADFID and ADD

http://www.northerngrid.org/sen/Menu-L.htm
"SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning."

Time management

With Google Calendar, you can see your friends' and family's schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online. Go to Google http://google.com and then to more and to Calendar.

http://www.compilerabuse.com/projects/pcalarm/pcalarm_help.htm
PCAlarm 3.1 is the alarm clock simulator for Windows. It displays the current (system) time and allows a user to sound an alarm at a specified time.

Vision - artificial

The vOICe Learning Edition - Synthetic vision software for Microsoft Windows is "an experimental system for auditory image representations, intended to provide synthetic vision to the totally blind." - http://www.artificialvision.com/winvoice.htm

The vOICe Learning Edition translates arbitrary video images from a regular PC camera into sounds. This means that you can see with your ears, whenever you want to. Now step beyond your computer screen and screen reader and try this camera-based "scene reader". With a notebook PC you can even go mobile. How well you can learn to see with your ears is something that only you can find out, but now you can indeed find out and learn through this Learning Edition software, for free! It is hoped that seeing with sound will not only find many practical uses, but that extensive usage may also lead to visual experiences that truly have the distinctive subjective "feel" of vision.

Web accessibility

http://www.aprompt.ca
Web authors can use A-Prompt to make their Web pages accessible to people with disabilities. The A-Prompt software tool examines Web pages for barriers to accessibility, performs automatic repairs when possible, and assists the author in manual repairs when necessary. These enhanced Web pages are available to a larger Internet audience.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22/access.html
This is an online ``browser within a browser''; it gives you more control over how Web sites are displayed, regardless of which browser you have to use. The gateway currently has two main purposes: To make the Web easier to access for print-disabled users (such as users with low vision or dyslexia); To allow speakers of other languages to view Web pages written in them, when the encodings are not supported by their browsers.

http://www.webformator.com/englisch/index.php
Works with Internet Explorer and provides an accessible text-only re-presentation of a web page for a user's screen reader.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wat
Web Adaptation Technology makes the Web easier to navigate and read for seniors, people with disabilities, and special-education students. This is accomplished by making transformations and adaptations, according to personal preferences, during Web browsing. Specifically, Web Adaptation Technology assists users by enabling them to magnify the contents on a Web page and adjust font, image, and page layout to improve readability. Web Adaptation Technology also enables selected text to be read aloud, using a "text-to-speech" feature, and eases the typing of people who have difficulty with a keyboard (such as those with tremors or arthritis or who are recovering from a stroke) in part by detecting these errors and automatically adjusting the keyboard sensitivity to accommodate the typing. Available in nine languages, this software is in use by nonprofit organizations and schools around the world.

http://www.econointl.com/sw/
This is a simple to use speaking web browser that is free and allows easy navigation of complex pages by blind users.

Audio Enriched Links
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/ael/index.shtml
Audio Enriched Links provide previews of linked web pages to users with visual impairments. Before a user follows a hyperlink, the Audio Enriched Links software presents a spoken summary of the next page including its title, its relation to the current page, statistics about its content, and some highlights from its content. We believe that such a summary may be a useful surrogate for a full web page, and help users with visual impairments decide whether or not to spend time visiting a linked page.

http://www.atutor.ca/aform/index.php
AForm is a utility used to create accessible online forms, tests, or surveys. Using this utility to create forms ensures that people with disabilities accessing the Web with assistive technologies will be able to read and use the forms as would any fully able individual. Use the demo to create your own accessible forms. Download AForm from the SourceForge Web site.

Web Search

http://www.big.com/ An accessible search engine

http://www.webbie.org.uk/
WebbIE is a web browser for people who are blind and visually-impaired... especially those using screen readers. It is based on Microsoft's Internet Explorer to ensure that a maximum of sites work with it. It allows you access to the vast majority of webpages and tries to present all the information there simply and easily so you can explore and use the web fully.

Google Accessible Search
http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set. In its current version, Google Accessible Search looks at a number of signals by examining the HTML markup found on a web page. It tends to favor pages that degrade gracefully --- pages with few visual distractions and pages that are likely to render well with images turned off. Google Accessible Search is built on Google Co-op's technology, which improves search results based on specialized interests. Accessible Search is a natural and important extension of Google's overall mission to better organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. Google Accessible Search is designed to help the visually challenged find the most relevant, useful and comprehensive information, as quickly as possible. In the past, visually impaired Google users have often waded through a lot of inaccessible Web sites and pages to find the required information. Our goal is to provide a more useful and accessible web search experience for the blind and visually impaired.

Word processing

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~edgewrite/
Accurate Text Entry for Handheld Devices - Designed for Compactness, High Tactility, and Physical StabilityEdgeWrite is a new unistroke text entry method for handheld devices designed to provide high accuracy and physical stability for people with motor impairments or people "on the go."
EdgeWrite uses a unistroke alphabet designed to leverage physical edges for greater stability in text entry. An EdgeWrite user enters text by trasversing the edges and diagonals of a square hole in patterns that feel like writing regular letters. EdgeWrite is also available for Windows on a variety of common input devices