There are several web sites with useful links to software that can be used in an educational setting - examples http://www.vfpug.org and http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/tech/portnote.html#Accessibility_for_M ainstream_Palm_Devices Palm Accessibility Program http://www.palm.com/about/corporate/pap/ Text to speech on PDAs try iSpeak http://www.fonix.com/products/ispeak/ and there are several links to speech recognition. One is http://www.handheldspeech.com/software.html eVB Magnification Lens for your Pocket PC using Windows CE API http://www.devbuzz.com/content/zinc_evb_magnification_lens_pg1.asp Accessibility depends on the choice of device as always - Palm OS versus Pocket PC, EPOC and Linux systems! For giving presentations go to: http://www.presenter-to-go.com/ Transferring documents to Microsoft applications: http://www.dataviz.com/ DDH Software, Inc have a spell checker and thesaurus as well as a database synchronising program: http://www.ddhsoftware.com/ Adobe Acrobat for PalmOS: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforpalm.html AvantGo provides an internet service: http://avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html Best wishes E.A. Mrs E.A. Draffan, TechDis Accessibility Database, USIE, Education Development Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RG Tel: 01273 873600 http://www.techdis.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dan Miller Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 20:38 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: PDAs PDAs are wonderful. I use mine all the time with the compact keyboard to do notes in meetings. It is cheaper and smaller than the ol' laptop option. Dan Miller
