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Are there any plugins for browser for changing website colors?
For Firefox, you can use Night Mode Pro, Night Mode Eye Guard, or Black Background and White Text. All three extensions will automatically convert light backgrounds to dark backgrounds.
There was ...
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Are there any plugins for browser for changing website colors?
Are you familiar with f.lux? It doesn't do exactly what you've asked for, but I think it could still help you. F.lux is a program which reduces the amount of blue light that your computer emits and ...
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Screen filter for colorblind
Visolve Toolbar claims:
Visolve is the software that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminable colors for various people including people with color vision deficiency, ...
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Is there an equivalent to a "Reading guide strip" for Windows, OS X or Linux?
If you are reading pdfs on a Mac you could try Skim. It has a reading bar which by default focuses on one line. You can also change the colour in the menu item: Skim>Preferences>Display.
You can ...
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Web app for learning American Sign Language
As a native sign language user I highly suggest you start with lifeprint.com it is excellent for the free YouTube videos and the dictionary explains the many nuances and uses of each word. It helps a ...
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Android web browser that allows zooming in on any page
You can enable force zoom on Chrome. Go to Settings>Accessibility>Force enable zoom.
Hope it works for every website. I've tried it on a couple of sites which did not want to zoom and it worked so ...
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Is there an app that can read the clock out loud on a smart TV?
I checked and found this:
TellMeTheTime App Im not sure if it's what you are looking for.
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Software to select portion of screen, and click
FOUND IT!
Keynav: Retire your mouse (C, X11)
Keynav is a piece of an on-going experiment to make pointer-driven interfaces easier and faster for users to operate. It lets you move the pointer ...
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Email client for visually impaired on Windows 10
Thunderbird is no perfect choice either, but it offers some accessibility features out of the box. I can't test it on Windows, but it should all lead to similar results.
Increasing the font size: ...
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How to code with voice recognition?
This does not currently answer the question, but I have been working on a personal project since 2011 for this very purpose. While it isn't finished yet, I estimate it to be completed (and by ...
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Android apps that can blank background during video calls
I don't think this can be done in software alone.
Apple has a structure known as 'Centre Stage' which does precisely this - it can follow the subject as they move & maintain framing - but it can ...
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Windows (or cross-platform) app to copy strings from any window, especially error messages
The Windows scripting language AutoIt comes with a tool named AutoIt Window Information Tool that allows to extract a lot of details from every Window, dialog and even control in a dialog/window.
It ...
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Windows (or cross-platform) app to copy strings from any window, especially error messages
GetWindowsText
https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/GetWindowText
But you can copy text from standard error windows simply by press CTRL+C
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PDF accessibility scanner CLI
Here are some resources that might help:
Create a Batch Sequence
, still needs to be triggered manually
Maybe pair a Batch Sequence with this add-on; but that may not be a "valid use of Acrobat&...
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Making an iPhone "senior-friendly"
iOS has almost zero support for customizations. What you want is essentially impossible.
You can create Siri shortcuts for them to simplify some common workflows. I doubt it would work all that well, ...
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Simple Android app that sets the device's display to maximum brightness
It is possible to set maximum screen brightness using the Termux app with its Termux:API add-on app by issuing the termux-brightness 255 command. You must grant the Termux app the android.permission....
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Wii games for a child with motor impairment
Check out the totally underrated physics game Boom Blox, Boom Blox - youtube
It is a fun game that uses the nunjuks and can be single player and multiplayer, (either working together or against ...
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Have to speak pre-written sentences
There is an app called YASFA on F-Droid that lets you write some predefined words or sentences and upon clicking them it plays them out.
The app also comes with some predefined words that are useful ...
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App to help hard of hearing (HoH) for phone calls/conversations/public lectures
RogerVoice seems interesting for cell phone calls using Android phones.
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rogervoice.app&hl=en)
This application converts voice to text for the ...
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Is there an equivalent to a "Reading guide strip" for Windows, OS X or Linux?
Try this digital reading strip:
See-n-read.com/products/esee-n-read-2/
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Screen reader supporting the load of the html cite=“” attribute
Is there a screen reader which is able to load url of thecite=attribute like many do for thelongdesc=attribute ?
I have a reasonable understanding of how screen reader software processes HTML ...
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Accessibility colour contrast calculator for Linux like Colour Contrast Analyser
The Colour Contrast Analyzer is open source and on github so why not fork it and download a copy of Freepascal Lazarus and port it in your fork, (it should be reasonably trivial to do so as there are ...
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Chat software that reads out messages as they arrive?
The built-in Messages.app has support for AppleScript, and includes an example script that will use the OS speech system to notify you about events (message received, new chat invitation etc) - a ...
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Section 508 Compliant HTML Spreadsheet
Google Sheets has a page outlining its Section 508 Compliance on the accessibility page. It says it is supported "with exceptions". I couldn't find any information on Section 508 for Microsoft Excel ...
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Screen filter for colorblind
Vision does this. It's software for real-time screen daltonization.
You can also customize the correction strength.
To calculate the values you need to use you can do this color blindness test.
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