Demonstrates how to help disabled people and suggest assistive technology based on person's need if they do not know what they want. 5 minutes. From Ontario Public Library Association.
UIC students can contact the DRC to get a personal log in for Kurtzweil. It is installed on many library student computers. Watch this 3 minute video from Library of Waterloo on how it works to convert text to speech.
JAWS is a screen reader available at the assistive technology stations in the library. Watch this demo of learning how to use it to read websites. 3 minutes.
A screenreader is a software application that announces what's on the screen to people who cannot see or cannot understand what is displayed visually. From Tetra Logical. 5 min.
Google Doc from Library Accessibility Alliance. Tools section provides links to accessibility checkers and types of assistive technology such as screen readers.