A selection of programs that make BBC content more accessible.
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Accessible RSS is an accessible application that lets you access RSS feeds quickly and easily.
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A simple way to listen to one of dozens of live BBC radio stations online with a couple of key presses.
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Fatbits magnifies an area of the screen and paints the giant pixels into a new window, which may be useful if you have a visual impairment. To make the screen even more accessible, you can modify the colours it displays.
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MAGpie (Media Access Generator) is the original free caption- and audio-description authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with sensory disabilities.
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NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free “screen reader” which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers.
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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.
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