Free assistive technology

There are an increasing number of free assistive technology options for a computer. These are usually less sophisticated and have fewer features than the software you can buy, but if you want to surf the web, send and receive emails, and write basic documents, one of these might be just the ticket.

We've gathered information on free assistive technology products for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Chrome. While we will try to keep these pages updated, if you know of anything we've missed, please send details to digitalaccess@rnib.org.uk.

We've broken the information down into the following five sections:

Last updated: 3 December 2012

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