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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...