Dolphin Computer Access
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Dolphin Computer Access is a British company that designs, creates and sells software for people who are blind or have vision and print impairments, Dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties. The company was set up in 1986 and now exports to more than thirty countries, with offices in the UK, US and Sweden. Dolphin is a privately owned company and employs over sixty people worldwide. A proportion of their annual gross revenue is re-invested in the design and development of software products.
Dolphin Computer Access has a simple goal: to provide software products that allow visually impaired people to use mainstream computer applications in their original form. Through the use of Dolphin's screen enlargers, screen readers and braille output, users can operate word processors, spreadsheets, databases and the internet. Their expanding product range ensures students around the world have the means to achieve their full potential and succeed at school, college and within the work place.
Dolphin's flagship product [SuperNova] has recently won the coveted UK WOW award for technology in education.
[edit] Products
Amongst their products include:
- SuperNova, a screen reader, screen magnifier with Braille input and output options
- Hal, a screen reader
- Lunar, a screen magnifier
- Smart Hal, a screen reader for Windows Smartphones
- EasyProducer, for converting Microsoft Word documents into DAISY digital talking books
- EasyReader, a software DAISY book player
- EasyConverter, for converting various text input types into a choice of accessible formats
- EasyTutor, a reading and writing tool to help with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties
