Facilities for Users with Disabilities

1. The Help Centre

The Help Centre has eight Apple Macintosh computers and forty PCs running common software applications such as Microsoft Office. All have access to the Internet. A number of PCs have hardware and software to support disabled and dyslexic users.

1.1. Hardware

  • Scanners - The Help Centre has five scanners all running optical character recognition software that scans text.
  • Monitors: A 21 inch monitor and a 15 inch flat screen monitor are available.

1.2. Other equipment

A range of other equipment is available on request for use in the Help Centre and lecture rooms including:

1.3. Software

  • Jaws - screen reading software that enables blind/visually impaired people to access computers. The software reads out the information that is within the Windows screen/application and allows navigation via the keyboard.
  • Magic - screen magnification software that enables partial or full screen magnification in any Windows application.
  • Text Help - this software is designed specifically to aid people who are dyslexic. It provides word prediction, a homophone checker and a document reader that works in the majority of Windows applications.
  • Kurzweill 1000 - this software is installed on a PC attached to a scanner. The software can scan and recognise text and then read it back with a number of different voices.

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