If the guidelines have been followed, the result should be a well designed piece of courseware which is accessible to most students. The aim should be to develop courseware which is accessible. Adding enabling hardware and software is rarely wholly satisfactory and often reduces performance or removes functionality. Some students may still need adaptive technology and the following section describes some of the technology which may be used and makes suggestions which will help you to avoid creating barriers during the development process.
Screen reading software is usually memory resident.
It can be programmed to locate individual letters, words, lines or sections of text. Examples of speech synthesisers, all by the UK company Dolphin Systems . Magnification systems may be software or hardware based. Software systems are memory resident. Some systems also allow background colours to be altered and others provide screen reading.