Touch typing and braille are important skills for people with vision impairments to enable maximum access to information. Statewide Vision Resource Centre has published a useful guide to teach typing and computer skills. Following are some programs that will assist to skill people with vision impairment in learning specific access technologies.
Touch Typing:
- Dance Mat Typing free online typing program for children 7-11 years.
- Five Finger Typist download a free demo here. Approx $130.
- Talking Typer for Windows. Free download
- Typeability free download
- Doorway on line free touch typing
- Touch Typing Tutors a list of all the touch typing tutors.
Visual Input/output
Speech output
Braille:
- Mountbattan Braille Tutorials
- Sal2 Braille Reading System
- Braille Note
- Braille Tutor/Talking Braille Tutor
- Braille Bug
Accessibility Tutorials:
- Accessibility tutorials for Microsoft products
- Windows 7 Accessibility Tutorials
- Windows 8 Accessibility Tutorials
- Office 2013 Accessibility Tutorials
- Mac Accessibility
- Lynda.com Exploring Mac Accessibility
- Applevis – a community website for Apple users
- Mac for the Blind
Creating accessible documents turorials:
- Web accessibility Tutorials
- Accessibility training tutorials
- PDF Accessibility Tutorials
- Accessibility resources
- Powerpoint (Mac)