Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

Assistive Technologies

Tips and Tools provided by CSTW to help you with your writing.

Here you can find...

- Mac OS X

- PC (Windows) 

 

Mac OS X

Mac OS X Diction: Use your voice instead of typing text. No setup or special training is required.

Mac OS Voice-Over: Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen when you press a key or set of keys.

Read & Write Gold - A literacy tool that provides text-to-speech and various reading, writing and research tools. Available for free for all OSU students, staff and faculty and all OSU OCIO-managed computing sites on campus.

PC (Windows)

Windows Speech Recognition - Use your voice to control your computer. You can say commands that the computer will respond to, and you can dictate text to the computer. 

Balabolka - Render text on your screen to speech. Balabolka also allow you to create MP3’s that can be listened to on any MP3-capable device.