Dolphin Product Brochure 2009 Access Tools Discover your independence Dolphin's range of computer access software This brochure is available in a range of formats including Braille, Large Print, DAISY or MP3. Dolphin SuperNova Three ways to access Windows Screen Reader, Screen Magnifier AND Braille display support. Supernova from Dolphin is the ultimate access software, unique in giving you three magnificent ways to access Windows applications. Decide what works best for you - magnification, speech, Braille or a combination of all three. Whether you're writing documents, shopping online, sending emails or looking for total accessibility for a public access environment; with Supernova you've got absolute flexibility and choice. Use the Screen Reader in conjunction with the Magnification, ensuring that the text is easier and quicker to read or write. Alternatively, at the touch of a button, turn on the responsive and accurate speech facility for a boost if your eyes start to tire in the afternoon. Intuitive internet access provides quick and easy keyboard access to even the most complex web sites, giving you the confidence to browse the internet with ease. Magnify up to 60×, so you can enlarge and enlarge as you require throughout the day. The inbuilt image smoothing functionality will minimise any jagged edges, offering you smooth and easily readable characters. Relax those tired eyes and reduce headaches, by switching to colours that reduce glare and are more comfortable for you. Choose a magnification mode that suits you and your life. Move a magnifying glass over the screen, split and magnify a vertical or horizontal section or let your magnification follow you wherever you go. The options are endless. Braille reader? Supernova supports the complete range of refreshable Braille displays (Grades 1 or 2), including Braille keyboard input on supporting devices. Supernova is ideal for home, office, education or in larger corporate and Government organisations. Install it locally, across the network or take it wherever you go on a Dolphin Pen. It's powerful, reliable and so flexible that you can choose any possible combination of magnification, speech or Braille in a single stable application that suits your personal requirements. Supernova is a no compromise solution for any public access environment where providing a totally accessible IT solution is your first choice and your legal obligation. Supernova combines all the unique features of Lunar's Screen Magnification and Hal's Screen Reader in one integrated core product. Supernova ensures you can cater for all of your clients, irrespective of their sight levels. Dolphin Lunar See the bigger picture Screen Magnifier for low vision users that's easier on the eyes. If you're looking for Screen Magnification, the sky's the limit with Lunar. One click on the Lunar toolbar and everything on screen becomes magnified, effortlessly clear and instantly recognisable. Text and images remain smooth and easy to read even with very high levels of magnification. And Lunar's magnification just keeps going, all the way to 60×, so you can enlarge and enlarge as the day goes on or as your sight changes. Lunar's flexible colour changer ensures your total screen comfort. Switch to colours that are easier on your eyes or boost contrast, reverse white text onto a restful black background. Or try yellow on blue, or any of the other 20-plus high contrast colour schemes. Find the one that's perfect for you or it's simple to create your own colour scheme. Quit Lunar and your desktop returns to your standard Windows settings - great if you share a PC. Open Lunar again, you'll find your own personal settings for text size, brightness, contrast levels and desktop colour are all ready and waiting for you. Lunar makes your computer easier to use and returns your independence. Lunar is also: • Quick and Easy to install • Remembers your favourite magnification levels, modes and colour settings • Fast, responsive, stable and reliable • Simple and intuitive - no user training required Dolphin LunarPlus Need that bit extra? The added speech of LunarPlus is ideal to give you an afternoon boost by reading out most of what's on screen. It's not a full Screen Reader, but it does give you speech support to boost your accuracy and productivity when your eyesight starts to flag. Visit the Dolphin website to read a full list of the speech differences between LunarPlus and Supernova. Dolphin Hal Screen Reader with Braille support Hal is an incredibly versatile Screen Reader with a strong reputation for flexibility and stability even in the toughest of environments. But what makes Hal really stand out is the way that it will grow with you. Start straight from the box with the intuitive standard settings and it's easy to get going. Ready at your finger tips you can read a whole document, read the line, spell a word and all with individual keystrokes. As you become more familiar with Hal, you can tailor your screen reader to suit you, your work and home environment in every way. Hal's powerful Screen Reading engine is closely supported by your favourite speech synthesisers; Eloquence, RealSpeak or Acapela - you decide. Tweak the speed, verbosity and voice to instantly control how much information Hal gives you and when. You'll appreciate Hal's attention to detail too, like the way it tells you something has changed on screen, such as a page number, or that a reply is on its way in instant messaging. With Hal's powerful screen reading capabilities, you don't have to see the screen to make full use of the Windows environment or the Internet beyond. Hal's newly re-engineered web support provides the power to navigate and interact with even the most complex web pages including: social networking sites, shopping online or other web-based applications. Hal Screen Reader describes on-screen information to you using speech or via a refreshable Braille display, providing literary or computer Braille, Grades 1 and 2. Dolphin Cicero Turn the printed word into Speech Looking for an easier, more private way to read letters and other print documents? Cicero takes your computer and scanner and effectively turns them into a simple-to-use reading machine. Just place your text document on the scanner and Cicero will translate it into speech, or Braille via your refreshable Braille display. You can even magnify and alter the on-screen colours so that it's easier on your eye. Save or edit your newly scanned text, or scan and read more pages to listen and build a larger document. Alternatively send the text to your word processor or Braille software and embosser. Dolphin Pen Unlock the potential of any PC If you need to use more than one PC, the Dolphin Pen makes it simple to take your favourite Dolphin access software with you where ever you go. Choose from Lunar or LunarPlus Screen Magnifiers, Hal Screen Reader or the very best of both worlds with Supernova's integrated Screen Magnification and Screen Reading with Braille Support. The Dolphin Pen is a liberating little thumb drive, allowing you access to your favourite applications on any Windows PC with an enabled USB port. The Dolphin Pen delivers your preferred Dolphin speech, Braille and/or magnification features, complete with your unique settings intact. There are so many places you might want to use a PC apart from a dedicated workstation - whether it's hot-desking at your job, school or university, working in a library or at a client's office, relaxing at a friend's house or picking up email at an Internet Café overseas. With a lightweight, robust Dolphin Pen in your pocket, you can unlock the potential of any PC wherever you go and make it work for you. There's no need to carry bulky CDs around to install your access software - or to obtain multiple licences to use it on different PCs. Additional storage capacity on the Pen means you can also take other files around with you, anything from work-in-progress to your favourite songs! Try the affordable Dolphin Pen for yourself, with Dolphin's 30-day no quibble money-back guarantee. You'll find it gives you more flexibility, independence and control to get on with your life and work, wherever you need access to a PC. Dolphin Scripting Making the inaccessible, Accessible Not all applications are truly accessible and may result in low productivity, prove generally tricky or just plain inaccessible for visually impaired people. But Dolphin Scripting can remove these shared frustrations by creating a bespoke ‘script' that ensures your systems are seamlessly speech, magnification and Braille compatible. Companies, government departments and other organisations can ensure their disability legislation compliance by optimising their accessibility for their low vision and blind clients. The possibilities are truly endless with Dolphin Scripting. Ask about our onsite Scripting consultations or visit www.yourdolphin.com/Scripts for more information. Alt Format Tools to bring text to life Dolphin’s range of Alternative format solutions Provide people with the right tools and they are far more likely to succeed in all walks of life. That's especially true when it comes to ensuring that people with dyslexia, low literacy, low vision or blindness can access printed materials in the alternative format that they need and are entitled to. Latest disability legislation coupled with social and ethical obligations, mean it has never been more important for schools, colleges, employers, government departments, charities and other organisations to be able to create and offer the complete range of alternative formats – Large print, Braille, MP3 audio and DAISY talking books. Dolphin Computer Access has over 20 years experience in alternative format software. Dolphin offers a complete range of cutting edge tools that enables beginners through to transcription experts, to make high quality alternative format materials, quickly and with minimum hassle. What is DAISY? DAISY is the world's fastest growing alternative format and is proven to improve dyslexic students’ exam results by up to 40%. Why? Because the revolutionary difference with a DAISY book is that the reader can hear the words being read out, at the same time as seeing them simultaneously highlighted on their screen. DAISY books are also great for those with a visual impairment as they are so easy to navigate. Find page 259? Just type it in and you're there. You can even jump to words, phrases or chapter headings in moments too. EasyConverter The complete toolkit for delivering alternative formats. For many years teaching professionals have been ripping the spines off textbooks and scanning in the pages to make Braille editions. The same book might then be photocopied to create large print for another student. Such time-consuming processes can cause frustrating delays and can result in poor quality provisions. Equally government departments, companies, employers, charities and other organisations battle with timely delivery, due to the absence of in-house expertise or the costly outsourcing of transcription. But now thanks to EasyConverter there is a much faster, more flexible way to create high-quality alternative formats in-house, in just about any format that you need to offer. With EasyConverter software you can quickly convert your learning or training materials, newsletters, correspondence, brochures, prospectuses, reports, books or any other printed or electronic materials into Braille, MP3 audio, large print or DAISY. This can be done in moments, either: • Direct from your Word documents, PDF's, web pages, text files, NIMAS files or Kesi files. • Or from your printed documents via your scanner. The great advantage with EasyConverter is that once you’ve input the source material or file, the hard work is over. You can output the same original text in any alternative format you choose in future - saving considerable time when new students or clients request the same print materials, but in a different format for their bespoke requirements. There's the flexibility to add a note in text, audio or Braille to describe a picture or graph. Edit materials, choose grade 1 or 2 Braille, the human sounding synthesiser your reader prefers, and include original document page numbering for large print readers. Sharing these alternative format materials has never been easier and more convenient for you and your readers. The choice is yours: • Save your outputs to your virtual learning environment or website for your clients to access at their convenience • Burn to CD • Email your audio • Copy to MP3 or DAISY players • Print or emboss your Braille. Dolphin EasyConverter is simple to use, so even those with no alternative format creation experience have the versatility to offer their users the choice of alternative formats they deserve. “The benefit of Dolphin EasyConverter is that you are buying one piece of software with so many possibilities. In an educational setting, where there are a number of students all wanting the same document but needing different formats, this software should be able to meet most needs. I found EasyConverter clear, user friendly and straight forward to use. I think it has a lot of potential.” - RNIB Curriculum Review Dolphin EasyReader There's more than one way to read a book Reading a pleasure? Absolutely, when you've got the right format for you. The development of DAISY digital talking books makes reading far more pleasurable and productive for people with dyslexia or a visual or print impairment. DAISY books are widely available and to read them all you need is Dolphin’s EasyReader. EasyReader offers a fantastic alternative to buying a hardware DAISY player as it allows you to play DAISY books, NIMAS books, text files, html and DAISY xml on your PC or laptop. Plus, Dolphin EasyReader has an easy-to-use toolbar that makes it simple to change the voice, pace, colours, font size and type. Adam Randazzo, a student at Boston University, says: "I hated reading. I always have. But now I can finally enjoy reading with the help of the linked text and audio I can access with EasyReader." Dolphin EasyProducer Dolphin EasyProducer Make your own DAISY Getting print materials recorded to audio for visually or print impaired students can be time consuming and expensive when you have to pay someone else to do it. But now there's a way to create new generation digital talking books that saves you time and money and doesn't even involve hours of recording! EasyProducer empowers students, tutors, teaching professionals and trainers to quickly convert any Word document into a DAISY digital talking book. At the click of a button, EasyProducer automatically adds audio narration using the natural-sounding synthesiser of your choice. Then, as the book is read aloud, the corresponding words will be highlighted for the reader to follow, improving their understanding, literacy levels and reading pleasure. Readers with hardware DAISY players can also enjoy the books on the move. A chapter of a book can be converted in just 90 seconds - much faster than the two hours it would take to narrate. Dolphin Publisher The world's most sophisticated DAISY creation tool With the increasing demand for DAISY books there is a growing requirement for advanced software that is powerful enough to create a wide range of high-quality digital talking books to recognised worldwide DAISY standards. Dolphin Publisher is that software, by offering versatile features that make it ideal for experienced publishers, colleges, employers or disability officers. Here are just some of the many features that make Dolphin Publisher so effective: • Select the style of speech that suits your needs – or record your own! • Mix human audio with synthetic audio. Re-sample and add fades and. • Add images and synchronise them with audio and text. • Convert material to DAISY in moments from html, text, rtf and doc files. • Edit materials using the integrated HTML editor. • Insert footnotes, page numbering and pop-up pictures. • Protection-lock your materials to prevent unauthorised use. Dolphin Publisher may be the most advanced DAISY creation software of its kind, but it is very straight forward to use and has handy tutorials to help get you started. “Dolphin Publisher is the most comprehensive DAISY production tool, capable of producing full text and audio books. It is aimed at anyone wishing to produce materials on a large scale, and is used by the RNIB Transcription Centres at Tarporley and Ivybridge, who produce numerous leisure and academic titles each year.”- James Risdon, RNIB This brochure is available in a range of formats including Braille, large print, DAISY or MP3. Download them now from the Dolphin website or call us today. All Dolphin Access Software comes with a 30-day money back guarantee and full lifetime product support by telephone or email. To find out more, try a free Demo or for pricing information please visit www.yourdolphin.com or call our friendly sales team on 08451305353. Dolphin Computer Access Ltd. Technology House, Blackpole Estate West, Worcester, WR3 8TJ UK. Telephone: +44 (0)1905754577 Email: info@dolphinuk.co.uk