Your toolbar might be crammed with lots of tools that you are not acquainted with and are not used by you. On the other hand, there are tools that you require very frequently but have to keep selecting them from the different options in the toolbar. Making them easily accessible is very simple. In fact, you can customize the tool bar according to your need with these simple steps:

• Right click on the empty area of the tool bar (if you are using the Internet explorer) and select ‘Customise’.
• Select the tools that you want to add from the left column and click the ‘add’ button.
• If you want to remove some tool options from the panel, select them from the right column and click the ‘remove’ button.

Assistive technology is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses inventing and designing devices that will help people with physical disabilities to overcome their difficulties. For people with hearing or visual impairment life becomes much easier with assistive technology products like virtual screen readers or voice recognizers.

Today there are many organizations dedicatedly promoting research and development of assistive technology. You will also find renowned hardware and software manufacturing companies selling adaptive and rehabilitative devices which are products of assistive technology. However, one needs to be a little cautious while buying any such device because determining the right device for the right person is crucial.

People having cognitive difficulties can feel free to use computers with a variety of computer hardware support such as –

• Adaptive Layout keyboard
• Big Keys keyboard
• Ergonomic and flexible keyboard
• Keyboard Input devices
• One-handed Typing keyboards
• Braille Keyboards with Visual Impairment support
• Braille note taker
• Hands-free mouse
• Pointing Device Mouse

Most of these devices come with respective driver software. And finally there are the speech support software packages integrating high quality text-to-speech conversion tools to benefit visually impaired people.

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With the advancement of technology visually impaired people can experience using computers. A number of assistive technologies cater to people with visual impairment. If you are one of them you can opt for the following technologies.

The first thing you can go for is large key keyboards with 1” square keys. These keyboards come in different versions. If you already have a keyboard which you don’t want to replace you can choose high visibility keyboard stickers available in the market. These stickers are available in both upper and lower case.

Reading aids like video magnifiers can also help the visually impaired people to use computers. There is hand held magnifiers. You can also go for advance magnifiers that come with built-in flat panel monitors.

Assistive technology has not only helped the visually impaired people but also the blinds. They can use the computer by taking help of the Braille devices. It has given the blinds and visually impaired people same opportunities as everybody else.

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People with visual impairment can now enjoy reading, writing and even using the computer with the advent of advanced modern technologies. A research in UK shows that nearly 2 million people suffer from visual impairment.

There are various assistive technologies. One of the most effective of those technologies is video magnifiers and monitor supports. It is a great way to enlarge text size whether on white board, paper or monitor. For visually impaired people who use computer video magnifier is a perfect assistive tool.

Video magnifier is a very flexible tool for viewing text both near and distant. You can also opt for portable magnifiers. Video magnifier is ideal for reading text on monitors. But monitor support provides added height to monitors so that you can angle it further or closer according to your requirements.

Assistive technology has proved to be very useful for these people.