1. Home
  2. Blind/Visually Impaired
  3. Other Resources
  4. Assistive Apps

Assistive Apps

  • Peek and Seek (Paid)

    by: Play Odyssey

    SubjectCommunity of Practice, ILS, Leisure/Recreation, POHI/CI, Visual Skills
    Accessibility FeatureMagnification
    PlatformiOS
    Age RangeElementary, Preschool, Secondary

    Designed for iPad, this suite of engaging activities is designed to promote visual discrimination skills in children with special needs. Activities emphasize fundamental visual skills such as figure/ground, closure, and form constancy. The app's color palette has been chosen to be accessible to children with color perception issues.

    download Peek and Seek (Paid) on the App Store

  • Peekaboo Barn Lite (Free)

    by: Night & Day Studios, Inc.

    SubjectPOHI/CI, Visual Skills
    Accessibility FeatureMagnification
    PlatformiOS
    Age RangePreschool, Elementary

    Introduces three farm animals at a time. Inside the barn, friendly farm animals are waiting to pop out and surprise the little one. Try and guess who they are; tap the doors to find out!

    download Peekaboo Barn Lite (Free) on the App Store

  • Peeping Musicians (Paid)

    by: Inclusive Technology Ltd

    SubjectLeisure/Recreation, POHI/CI, Visual Skills
    Accessibility FeatureMagnification
    PlatformiOS
    Age RangePreschool

    This app is designed to encourage early looking/observation skills and develop basic touch and targeting skills. Wait and watch for the musicians as they ‘peep’ from the top, bottom or side of the screen. Simply touch them to make them move center stage and play a piece of music. There are 20 different characters and instruments to find.

    download Peeping Musicians (Paid) on the App Store

  • Perfect OCR (Paid)

    by: Piksoft, Inc.

    SubjectWriting, ILS, Community of Practice, Utility
    Accessibility FeatureMagnification
    PlatformiOS
    Age RangeSecondary, Teachers

    Perfect OCR gives user both an accurate general purpose OCR app and a quality document scanner. It can scan OCR letter-size or A4 documents with an accuracy of 90% or more, edit, copy and store the recognized text, and e-mail your documents as PDF files with text, SINGLE page image, or both together!

    download Perfect OCR (Paid) on the App Store

  • Pericles (Free)

    by: Pericles

    SubjectCommunity of Practice, Reading, Utility
    Accessibility FeatureMagnification, Text to Speech, VoiceOver/Screen Reader
    PlatformBrowser/Software Extension, Microsoft, Website
    Age RangeSecondary, Teachers

    This text-to-speech screen reader does not require cutting and pasting sentences or webpage sections. Pericles benefits people with disabilities, eye fatigue, or those who want to increase their productivity. It helps you read the news, scientific articles, and many other text resources. Built with a range of voices for Mac, and more limited options for Windows.

    https://getpericles.com
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pericles-text-to-speech-s/oacindbdmlbdeidohafnfocfckkhjlbg
    https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/pericles-text-to-speech-/dicmdfflmlkogaplldmicpmpjdoiahgf