At King’s, there is a wide variety of assistive software available to access throughout your studies
This includes:
- Inspiration 9: Inspiration 9 supports you to create diagrams, mind maps, memory tools, visual learning, essay planning, comprehend and communicate.
- Text Help Read and Write Gold 12: Supports you to proofread your work, listen to your work, documents, convert text to a high-quality audio, and create audio revision files
- Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 professional: Dragon is a voice recognition software that helps you to dictate documents in Microsoft Word, send emails and more all by speaking.
- Zoom Text 11: Zoom is a screen Magnifier and Reader, it can read most documents and can change background colours this application is beneficial to users with a visual impairment.
- Jaws 18: Jaws enables users with vision loss to independently use a keyboard with a computer along with a connection to braille output devices.
- Abby Fine Reader 14: Abbyy Fine Reader helps you to convert an in-accessible document to a more friendly file format.
- Sensus Access: allows you to convert documents that would normally be inaccessible. These include image-only PDF files, scanned documents, pictures of text, and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
Additional support and training when using Assistive technology
Assistive software workshops are held all year round to help you practice using assistive technology. Alternatively, you can request an individual assistive technology training session from your Disability Adviser.
