Assistive Technologies

Note: All links below are to external sites.

For a comprehensive list of assistive technologies available to UWM students, see this page from the Accessibility Resource Center (ARC). For a comprehensive list of all software available to UWM students, see this page from UWM Technology Resources. 

Screen Reader for our WCOnline Scheduler 

• UWM Writing Center’s online scheduler WCOnline is accessible with a screen reader. For the text-only area, click on the  ACCESS TEXT-ONLY/ACCESSIBLE & MOBILE VERSION link that appears at the top left of pages in the WCOnline schedule. 

Reading & Literacy  

• Read&Write For Education – Reading, Literacy & Assistive Software | Texthelp 

Screen Readers 

• How-to-Use-Speech-to-Text-on-Student-Computer.pdf (usc.edu) 
• Force OCR for PDF https://web.hypothes.is/help/how-to-ocr-optimize-pdfs/ 
• Fusion—useful for any kind of visual impairment (use UWM credentials here) 
• Microsoft Read Aloud 
• JAWS (use UWM credentials here) 
• Capti Personal (captivoice.com) 
• EasyReader App US | Dolphin Computer Access (yourdolphin.com) 
• Free Text to Speech Online with Realistic AI Voices (naturalreaders.com) 

Screen Magnifiers 

• ZoomText screen magnifier (use UWM credentials here)