Accessible software
Screen reader, Screen Magnifer, OR Combination Software
Freedom Scientific is providing all users in the United States and Canada access to a special home license during the COVID-19 crisis free of charge. The license will work uninterrupted until June 30, 2020. This special Home Annual license works for ZoomText, JAWS, or Fusion on your personally owned computers (3 devices). [JAWS Screen Reader OR ZoomText Magnifier with speech OR Fusion (gives you access to both ZoomText and JAWS individually, or together when run as the combined solution – Fusion)] Register for this great, free resource here: https://portal.freedomscientific.com/SponsoredSoftware?fbclid=IwAR3TtBRZiRCPCNRzHqQZnKprlW_zngIFz359n50_34dDXP2eP6R2aMs9lE0
Meeting; Screen sharing
Zoom: https://zoom.us/
Word processing, spreadsheets, etc.
Microsoft Office online: https://products.office.com/en-us/free-office-online-for-the-web
Touch typing instruction
Accessible Books
- Bookshare: https://www.bookshare.org/cms/
- How to Sign Up for a Bookshare Account: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzcvxi7v2ejn95g/How%20to%20Sign%20Up%20for%20a%20Bookshare%20Account%20Online.docx?dl=0
- BEAR’s Offer to Serve as a Certifying Authority for Bookshare Sign-up: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9d5jikd14ejw371/Bookshare%20cert%20auth%20offer.docx?dl=0
- National Library Service: https://www.loc.gov/nls/
- NFB Kernel Books (Stories by and about blind individuals, edited and distributed by the National Federation of the Blind): https://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/books/kernel1/kernels.htm
Newspapers and Magazines
- NFB Newsline (a free audio news service for anyone who is blind, low-vision, deafblind, or otherwise print-disabled that offers access to more than 500 publications, emergency weather alerts, job listings, and more, provided by the National Federation of the Blind): https://www.nfb.org/programs-services/nfb-newsline
- Braille Monitor (the flagship publication of the National Federation of the Blind covering the events and activities of the NFB, addressing the issues we face as blind people, and highlighting NFB members): https://www.nfb.org/resources/publications-and-media/braille-monitor
- Future Reflections (a quarterly magazine for parents and teachers of blind children that offers resources and information based on the National Federation of the Blind’s positive philosophy of blindness): https://www.nfb.org/resources/publications-and-media/future-reflections