Blind and Pmg Software for Windows

BlindScanner
$24 - Masters ITC

Sometimes users of one local area network face the following problem: whether it is necessary to buy another scanner if you already have one in office or at home just for everyone to be able to scan documents without distracting colleagues from their important work? The BlindScanner software will share and open access to a scanner on the local area network that is not directly connected to your computer, but installed on a computer located in the neighboring room, for example. Easiness of use, saving to various formats, compressing images, scanning pages automatically, scanning multiple pages, supporting an automatic feeder - these are not all program features. Now you can scan images using your favorite software, text and image editors, just select BlindScanner Remote Data Source in the list of installed scanners, specify the necessary color, resolution and size of the image. The program will be useful not only in office where it will help you save several hundred dollars you could spend on a new scanner, but also at home for scanning from a notebook in a wireless home local area network. BlindScanner works with any plotting TWAIN scanner and also supports scanners with automatic feeders.

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New Pigment
$24 - AMF

New Pigment is a picture viewer for colorblind people. It aids in modifying the colors of images and pictures so that those with specific color-blindness can easily view the images. New Pigment works only with the abnormal color sensitivity (-anomaly), not the missing of color-sensitive pigment (-anopia).
How Does It Work? The Science Behind Colorblindness...
New Pigment changes the color that a colorblind person cannot see (the defective color) by a small amount (up to 13 levels of change are possible). While it adjust this color, the defective color moves towards another color making a shift in the color sensitivity curves that the colorblind eye can see. For example, green color may shift towards red, so some of the "greenish" colors will look like "reddish" colors. The defective color may be recovered by applying slight modifications of both the brightness and the saturation of the three basic colors of each pixel of the image (Red Green and Blue), to oppose the defective color shift.

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The vOICe Learning Edition
$0 - The vOICe (CEO Peter B.L. Meijer)

The vOICe seeing-with-sound software translates images from a PC camera (webcam) into sounds that you hear via your stereo headphones, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to "see" their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like. The vOICe uses pitch for height and loudness for brightness in a left to right scan of any view. Apart from using a webcam or equivalent video capture device, images may also be imported from an image file (Control O) or acquired with a flatbed scanner (Control Q).

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WhatColor
$8 - Nakahara-Hikaru Shareware

WhatColor identifies a color of the pixel on the screen of your PC. There are some similar tools to display RGB values to assist making HTML used in authoring WWW pages. WhatColor is different. It tells you not only RGB values, but also the name of the color of the point.

You would say, "Seeing the screen, it's easy to know the name of the color, isn't it?". No, it's not easy for color-blind people to know how other people call the color of characters, lines or background on the PC screen. This software is designed for those people with partial or total color blindness. I am one of those people, so I made this one.

WhatColor displays the magnified area around the mouse cursor for the user to easily choose a pixel to inspect its color. This feature may useful not only to colorblinds, but also to aged people who have difficulties in viewing small characters.

WhatColor is useful in using software with various colors, in developing software, in instructing usage of a PC or software to other people, as well as in writing your Web pages.

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Pirate Memory Audio Game
$27.9 - KlangoGames.com

High Quality Hardware Accelerated 3D-Audio Game fully accessible for BLIND and VISUALLY IMPAIRED PLAYERS.
Shiver me timbers! You don't look like one of those lilly livered land-lovers, so get ye prepared for meeting zippy PIRATES from the High Seas. Are you READY FOR new ADVENTURES? JOIN US!
ADDICTIVE, SIMPLE and ORIGINAL, PIRATE MEMORY Audio GAME is sure to WIN your HEART and is a great GIFT for your BLIND FRIEND.
It is a variant of a classical MEMORY game. You play in THREE exceptional auditory SURROUNDINGS: on the PIER, at the SEASIDE and in the SEA. In each of them, you will ENJOY 12 levels of the PIRATE MEMORY Audio GAME, which make altogether THIRTY SIX AUDIO PUZZLES.
Yo ho ho! Make a great PRESENT for your FRIENDS. Let's PLAY together with PIRATES from all over the globe and find your BEST results in the Pirate World's HALL OF FAME on the internet.
You will find more info about this FANTASTIC audio game at

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Talking Dictionary
$33.95 - RWF Talking Software

Talking Dictionary is a speech enabled encyclopedic dictionary that can be used with or without a screen reader. The dictionary is based on the Wordnet 2.1 database and contains over 250,000 words. These include historical figures, slang and jargon. The dictionary has updated with the latest additions to the database numbering over 8500 words. Talking Dictionary is for computers running Microsoft Windows and has been optimized for Windows XP. Fully updated with 8500 new word definitions. Can now be used from within other Windows programs, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Notepad, etc. Spell checker rewritten and improved. Can search for words when letters are missing from the input. For partially sighted users the text size can easily be adjusted. Has new voices that can easily be installed. Many more new features.

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