[Athen] Assistive technology plug-ins for Microsoft Word?

[Heidi Scher]

Shelley, what a great idea - getting a list of these Word plug-ins pulled
together!  I agree that it would be useful for so many of us!
One helpful plug in that I have found and that I suggest often to students
is called the FX Toolbar.  (It's a freebie!)  Hightlighted text can be
pulled out to create study guides.  The other two features that students
like are the ability to identify confusable words and to identify run-on
sentences!  Available from www.fxc.btinternet.co.uk/assitve.htm.  It's at
the very bottom of their web page.
Heidi
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Shelley Haven <shelley at techpotential.net>wrote:


> Hi, all!

>

> I'm looking for plug-ins or add-ons to Microsoft Word (Mac or Windows) that

> provide it with assistive technology capabilities which are ordinarily

> supplied by separate programs.  (By "add-on" I mean something which becomes

> an integral part of the Word user interface, like a toolbar, without the

> need to open another program.)  The list below is what I have so far.  What

> others are you aware of?  (I'm sure I'm missing some obvious ones!)

>

> - Word's built-in Speech toolbar which provides very basic text-to-speech

> playback

> - Audio Notes toolbar in Word for Mac which synchronizes typed notes with

> recorded audio

> - WordTalk -- text-to-speech plug-in with highlighting <

> http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/>

> - Ginger Software -- contextual spelling and grammar checker <

> http://www.gingersoftware.com>

> - Ghotit plug-ins for spellcheck, dictionary, and text-to-speech <

> http://www.ghotit.com>

> - "Save as DAISY" translator

>

> Thanks in advance,

>  Shelley

>

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