Being blind or visually impaired limits an individual’s ability to learn from any visual stimuli presented in the classroom. In the traditional classroom it interferes with a student’s access to books, presentations, notes written on the board, and visual prompts from teachers while giving classroom instruction. In today’s classroom it also limits students’ ability to access digital media that are used to share ideas. Visually impaired students had the further challenging of note taking from visual prompts and of communicating with teachers who cannot read braille writing.
JAWS is an adaptive, screen reading technology that is helpful to students, though it is a software that was initially offered by Freedom Scientific to enable visually impaired people to function effectively in their workplace. JAWS Professional is currently priced at $1,095 and is compatible with Lotus Symphony, Microsoft® Office Suite, Firefox™, Corel®, Internet Explorer,™ WordPerfect, Adobe® Acrobat Reader, MSN Messenger®. Standard JAWS is priced at $895.
PAC Mate is another AT that is makes convenience PDA accessible to blind and low vision users
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