The release of an esoteric plug-in for a twenty-year-old piece of software normally doesn’t merit much attention… except when the software is the ubiquitous Microsoft Word, and the add-on could have a ...

Microsoft has helped develop an open source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible for the 160 million people worldwide with ...

Nonprofit educational materials provider Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic has announced it has made its entire selection of AudioPlus Books for DAISY devices available for download. Digital ...

Chennai: A blind person can pick up a phone, laptop or computer and switch on a text-to-speech synthesizer which is available as default in these devices. Using arrow keys on a keyboard, the cursor ...

Microsoft is extending its lead in assistive technology alongside the Daisy Foundation. Microsoft will make a Daisy plug-in available on Sourceforge early next year which will read Word 2003 and 2007 ...

A new plugin will enable Microsoft Word users to save Open XML-based documents in a format that makes the content accessible to blind or visually impaired users. The plugin, which is a free download, ...

A textbook in Braille is a boon to any visually challenged student, but not as much as a talking book. Shakthi Kamlesh, a student of Class XII of Saint Louis Institute for The Deaf And Blind in Adyar, ...