Description
TypeAbility is devoted to providing the blind and visually impaired with software that will enable them to use computer applications just as well as their sighted peers. The mainstay of our suite of applications is TypeAbility, where students learn to master Keyboarding, Editing, Navigation, and Computer Skills. David Pinto, the founder of YesAccessible, has spent his teaching and programming career making sure that students are never left in the dark, that instructions are always complete yet easy to understand, and that a graduated approach to learning is provided that never requires knowledge or skills that have not been thoroughly introduced earlier. And, to top it off, the learning process is always enjoyable and fun!
- TypeAbility is a program that teaches the entire computer keyboard in 99 user-friendly lessons. By the end of the lessons, the student will have mastered all the letters, numbers, punctuation, as well as navigation and editing in dialogs and text documents. TypeAbility is great fun for all ages!
- Learning how to startup, run, choose lessons and tasks, and how to close TypeAbility is very simple. After a few lessons with an assistant, a blind non-typing child will be able to use the program independently. TypeAbility is fun and appropriate for students of all ages.
- There are User Preferences that allow TypeAbility to conform to each students needs. However, there are not such a bewildering number of esoteric options that learning how to use TypeAbility would be a mystery and chore. It's a cinch!
- Even though TypeAbility is very simple to use, it is both the most advanced typing program for the blind on the market, and the most fun to use.
Specs
- Supports JAWS 8 through 17, Up to Windows 10, Networked Computers, One-Hand Typists, Laptop Keyboards,
- And basic Braille Input Support using the Power Chord Braille Keyboard.
- MAGic 13.1 Supported
- New TypeAbility Installer Simplifies Admin Tasks
- New TypeAbility Installer Simplifies Network Installs
- Support for Partial Laptop Keyboards
- Support for One Handed Typists
- Support for UK Keyboards
- Basic Support for Braille Input using the Power Chord USB Braille Keyboard
- Support for Networked Computers
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Testimonials
"We can't believe how our 5-year-old son Mason has taken to TypeAbility
and the ease of its use. He looks so forward to his time with the program, and always comes away learning more and more keyboarding skills. You've developed a great program, thoroughly thinking through what would be the best way for a visually impaired person to learn a keyboard. By making the lessons educational, entertaining and useful your program has opened doors for my visually impaired child that we never could have imagined."
Trevor F. Parent
"TypeAbility is a great tool for teaching both basic and advanced keyboarding. It is fun, motivating, and interactive with the student! I especially like that it gives instant feedback to students, and that it tracks individual students and reports progress for teachers."
Sheryl Smith, Teacher for the Visually Impaired
TypeAbility is very innovative and remarkably engaging. The kids at the California School for the Blind just love it. And it’s fun for the teachers to watch the kids use it independently. The students are frequently cracking up over the humor in the program, yet they always come away with new typing skills. The only problem we have with TypeAbility is that when the students are using it, we have a hard time breaking them away from the computer. Interestingly, kids with Attention Deficit Disorders who usually have to be monitored minute by minute, can be left alone with TypeAbility for half an hour or more with no worry for us teachers at all.
Jerry Kuns, Technology Specialist, California School for the Blind