There is a wide array of assistive/adaptive equipment available which immediately improves the quality of lives. Giving this critical equipment to Wisconsin residents challenged by irreparable sight loss is the sole mission of Eye-Link Wisconsin!

Getting assistive/adaptive tools that reopen all channels of information has a positive impact on people whose lives have been altered by the onset of irreparable sight loss. This specially designed equipment featuring hardware & software packages that literally “reads“, offers new ways to read books, newspapers, playing cards, and even prescriptions. Receiving and using adaptive technologies reopens doors to information that have been closed by losing functional sight. Learning to use adaptive technology immediately begins to restore self-esteem, self-sufficiency, confidence, and independence.

Eye-Link Wisconsin furnishes this vital equipment free of any charges to residents experiencing unrecoverable vision impairment.

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Here are some of the adaptive technologies:

Topaz OCR – The TOPAZ OCR combines video magnification and text-to-speech features into a single desktop video magnifier. The high-definition camera produces a clear picture with sharp images and crisp text. The OCR camera displays a document on the touchscreen, and then TOPAZ processes, acquires, and reads aloud the document.

SmartLux Digital Handheld Magnifier
 – Smartlux Digital is a portable handheld video magnifier that will aid in viewing pill bottles, menus, stove top dials and shopping lists.

BrailleNote – 
BrailleNote is a specialized computer with a braille keyboard, text-to-speech synthesizer, and braille output display. BrailleNote is commonly used in work and school environments.

CCTV
 – closed circuit television (CCTV) or video magnifier is a device that projects a magnified image of printed text, handwriting, and photographs onto a large monitor. CCTV helps the visually impaired to read printed materials and see what they are writing. The DaVinci, a hybrid CCTV, combines the ability to boost font and character size with an optical scanner. The scanner reads the document to the user.

JAWS – 
Job Access with Speech (JAWS) is software package to convert on-screen text elements into text-to-speech or braille display.

ZoomText Screen Magnification Software – 
ZoomText Screen Magnifier is a screen magnifier for Microsoft Windows that assists the visually impaired by increasing the size font and characters.

Desktop & Laptop Computers
 – A powerful and reliable computer is necessary to run software such as JAWS.

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