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

[John Gardner]

Hi Shelley.  The Tiger Softer Suite braille formatter is a Word plug-in.
John


On 8/19/2009 2:11 AM, Shelley Haven 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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