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Don Johnston Incorporated
http://www.donjohnston.com/
Don Johnston Incorporated is the leader in learning intervention resources. We provide the high-quality intervention products that struggling students and students with disabilities need to achieve literacy. We offer reading, writing, word-study and computer access products, as well as professional development services for educating teachers on using technology in the classroom to teach reading and writing.
SEN | Software | Clicker | Symbols | Co:Writer® 4000 | Discover Literacy™ | Switches | Keyboard | Keyboards | Writing | Numeracy |

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/
These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools. The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility.

HandSpeak | Signing
http://www.handspeak.com/
HandSpeaktm is the largest, fast-growing popular sign language dictionary online.
A Practical Sign Language Dictionary Online

American Sign Language Browser
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
Welcome to Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.
This web site contains the signs found in MSU Comm Tech Lab's award winning Personal Communicator CD-ROM. The CD-ROM runs on laptop or desktop computers and is designed for deaf children to use at school and at home.

Immersion: Touch Sensitive
http://www.immersion.com/
When you sit down at a computer, you typically use two senses: sight and hearing. TouchSense technology engages a third sense—touch—to deliver a more natural experience. Instead of just pointing at elements on screen, the cursor becomes an extension of your hand.

Betsie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/02/accessibility_betsie_text.html
Betsie is the filter program used by the BBC to create an automatic text-only version of its website. This site contains full information about Betsie as well as pointers to accessible sites and resources across the web.

TTY: Text Telephones (for the Deaf)
http://www.ultratec.com/
TTY stands for Text Telephone. It is also sometimes called a TDD, or Telecommunication Device for the Deaf. TTY is the more widely accepted term, however, as TTYs are used by many people, not just people who are deaf.
A TTY is a special device that lets people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired use the telephone to communicate, by allowing them to type messages back and forth to one another instead of talking and listening. A TTY is required at both ends of the conversation in order to communicate.

Laureate Learning Systems
http://www.laureatelearning.com/
Founded in 1982 by two speech-language pathologists, Laureate Learning Systems publishes computer software for children and adults with disabilities. Laureate's programs are appropriate for a wide range of people from those with severe-profound developmen tal disabilities to mild language-learning disabilities

The Official Site for IBM ViaVoice
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/
ViaVoice speech recognition technology makes computer work as convenient as speaking into a computer microphone, mobile recording device or a telephone handset.

Study Scan ... Dyslexia
http://www.zyworld.com/studyscan/
Computerised battery of tests primarily to diagnose dyslexia (students in higher education).... also a useful analysis of students strength & weaknesses in a range of educational disciplines.

Braille Music Translator
http://www.dancingdots.com/
Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology (DDBMT) seeks to offer disabled individuals access to information that can widen opportunity and enrich lives. Since 1992 we have focused on software development to benefit the blind musician. In October, 1996, Dancing Dots initiated a braille music transcription service based on GOODFEEL. The GOODFEEL software was first released in third quarter, 1997.

IBM's SEN & IT Site
http://www-03.ibm.com/able/
Includes software such as "Home Page Reader" which reads web pages ... particulary useful for visually impaired.

Abilitynet
http://www.abilitynet.co.uk
A web site created by The Computability Centre and The British Computer Society - Disability Group. Apart from the content.... this is an excellent site to look at when considering designing sites for users with disabilities.