DSA Reading Support

Difficulty with reading can undermine everything especially when you want to work independently. Having a person who can tell you what is said in text form is very expensive and cannot be guaranteed to cover all times and places. Alternatives which offer portability and independence are available.

Reading from print:

Scanner

OCR software

textHELP Read & Write Gold

textHELP Wordsmith

Multifunction machines

Quictionary

Reading from a word processor or other windows software:

textHELP Read & Write v7

textHELP Read 7 Write Gold

textHELP Wordsmith

Reading from screen:

textHELP Screen Reader

Overlap with VI?

BrowseAloud

If you would like some advice or information about disability and study at degree level or if you need a quotation for specialist equipment and services though the Disabled Students' Allowance, please contact us.