Adaptive Technology Products and Vendors

The CSULB High Tech Center staff have compiled the following information about adaptive technology products and access devices for people with disabilities. This list does not represent all available adaptive technology or all the vendors who sell and service adaptive technology and /or products to consumers.

Adjustable Tables and Workstations

sis usa, inc.
Ergonomically accessible workstations (hand crank & electrically motorized tables).
Ergo In Demand, Inc.
Da-Lite

APPLE

Apple accessibility - Apple's accessibility features for the Macintosh computer system

Augmentative Communication Devices

Prentke-Romich, Company
- Communication Products
- Adaptive Technology Software Products
- Adaptive Technology Computer Access
- Switches & Mounts

Braille Embossers

GW Micro
ViewPlus - Tiger® Braille Printer:The ViewPlus Pro is a braille production machine able to handle large volume runs of braille and tactile graphics, printing all sizes and types of paper/media.
Sighted Electronics
Basic-D and Basic-S - Double or single sided Braille printers
Everest - Double sided Braille printer for cut sheet paper
Index 4X4 PRO - Double sided Embosser for Braille Magazines
4 Wave Professional - Double sided Braille printer for cut sheet paper
Acoustic cabinets
Enabling Technologies
Single-Sided Braille Embossers
- Romeo Attaché Most transportable single-sided basic embosser.
- Romeo Attaché Pro Feature-rich transportable single-sided embosser.
- Romeo 25 Transportable single-sided basic embosser, flexible & tough.
- Romeo Pro 50 Faster, feature-rich transportable single-sided embosser.
- Thomas Single-sided desktop embosser.
- Marathon Highest capacity in single-sided Braille.
Double-Sided Braille Embossers
- Juliet Classic Value in extra-wide-line interpoint.
- Juliet Pro Feature-rich extra-wide-line interpoint.
- ET Value in speedier interpoint.
- Juliet Pro 60 Feature-rich speedier interpoint.
Commercial Production Embossers
- BookMaker Production interpoint at 80 characters per second.
- Braille Express 100 Production interpoint at 100 characters per second.
- Braille Express 150 Production interpoint at 150 characters per second.
- BraillePlace Production interpoint at 300 characters per second.
- PED-30 Plate Embossing Device Platemaker for Braille publishing.
Signmakers & Labelers
- PrestoBraille Industrial-strength Braille signmaker.
- KGS Braille Labeler Braille labels made easy

Braille Keyboard Displays

Sighted Electronics
- The NEW BRAILLEX® EL-80s
  The flattest 80 cell Braille display world wide.
- The NEW BRAILLEX® EL-66s
  A large Braille Display in a compact desktop unit.
- The NEW BRAILLEX® EL-40s
  The smallest Braille Display ever made. Utilizes the Easy Access Bar.
- The NEW BRAILLEX® EL-40sd
  The handsome 40 cell desktop Braille display.
- The BRAILLEX® EL 2D-80
  The summit in efficiency.
- The BRAILLEX® EL 2D-66
  The clever intermediate size Braille Display.

Braille Note Takers

GW Micro - Braille Sense. Braille notetaker.
Freedom Scientific - Braille Lite. A refreshable Braille output device

Braille Translation Software

Duxbury Systems - Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) and MegaDots:
Print to Braille translation software applications.

Captioning Vendors

Automatic Sync - Phone: (877) 278-7962, Email: info@automaticsync.com
- $70 p/hour for 0-20 hrs
- $55 p/hour for 21-50 hrs
PeopleSupport Rapidtext, Inc. - Phone: (800) 234-0304 ext. 47124, Fax: (949) 258-5639. 1801 Dove Street, Suite 101, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Contact Kathy Furlan at kfurlan@peoplesupport.com

CCTV’s

Ash Technologies - High resolution portable color CCTV (TViZoom, Liberty, Liberty Plus, Prisma).
Sighted Electronics - Magnilink. Desk top CCTVs (Seagull, Penguin, Colibri).
Optelec, Inc. - Desk Top CCTVs, Hand held magnification devices.

Optical Character Recognition Applications (OCR)

Arkenstone - OPENBook. An optical character recognition system (OCR text scanner & reader).
WYNN 3.0. Literacy software for assisted reading and writing.
Lisa Smolen & Associates - Kurzweil 1000 and 3000 for the PC, Kurzweil 3000 for the MAC, textHELP!

On-Screen Character Enlargement Applications

AiSquared - ZoomText. An on screen magnification interface.
Freedom Scientific - MAGic. Screen magnification application

On-Screen Keyboard

Innovation Management Group, Inc. - On-screen Virtual Keyboards and Pointing Device Utilities
Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Centre - WiViK on-screen keyboard (virtual keyboard)

Screen Readers and Speech Synthesizers

Freedom Scientific - JAWS Screen Reader.
GW Micro
- Window/Vocal Eyes. A screen reader.
- Speech Synthesizers.
  - TripleTalk USB
  - DECtalk USB
Dolphin - Hal & SuperNova screen reader

TTD/TTY

Voice Recognition

Dragon Naturally Speaking - A voice recognition input device.
Via Voice (IBM, Inc.)

Word Prediction

Applied Human Factors, Inc. - Word prediction
WordQ - Word prediction

Regional Vendors

Access Ingenuity - Central CA Rep for Adaptive Techology Assistive Devices
3635 Montgomery Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Toll Free: 877-579-4380
Main Phone: 707-579-4380
Fax: 707-579-4273
Email: customerservice@accessingenuity.com
A. T. Kratter & Associates - Southern CA Rep for Adaptive Techology Assistive Devices
A.T. KRATTER & Company, Inc.
12062 Valley View Street Suite 109
Garden Grove CA 92845-1739
Tel: (714) 799-3000
Fax: (714) 799-3100
HumanWare, Inc. - Northern CA Rep for Adaptive Techology Assistive Devices
HumanWare
175 Mason Circle
Concord, CA 94520 USA
Toll-free phone (US only) 1 800 722-3393
Phone +1 925 680-7100
Fax +1 925 681-4630
E-mail: us.info@humanware.com