Accessibility

Capti is a universally accessible literacy platform enabling and empowering students to keep up with reading, and develop active reading strategies.

Speed reading extension for Chrome.

Bionic Reading revises texts so that the most concise parts of words are highlighted. This guides the eye over the text and the brain remembers previously learned words more quickly.

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free screen reader enabling blind and low vision people to use computers.

Otter.ai is an online transcription tool. You can use it to record and transcribe conversations, meetings or your ideas using Otter on your mobile phone or web browser.

A free limited plan is available.

A Chrome app to type with your voice. Turns Google Chrome into a speech recognition app to dictate documents, emails and essays without touching the keyboard.

Uses Chrome's Local Storage to automatically save the transcriptions.
Uses the Web Speech API of Chrome that is supported in all the newer release of Chrome browser including Google Chrome on Android.
The app is integrated with Dropbox and Google Drive to help you easily export the transcribed text to your various online accounts.
Alternatively, your can send the dictated text to any email address.

Type with your Voice in Google Docs
You need to use Google Chrome for this.
You can correct any mistakes and use voice commands to select text, format text and move around the document.

Chrome browser extension which inverts webpage colours.

A free app that narrates the world around you.

Visual assistance on your smartphone.

a visual-aid app provided by TUAT Inc. to enhance the accessibility of the visually impaired and low vision users and informs users who need visual aids about information perceived via the smartphone camera.

Android app

Alexa.

Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.

Provides background sounds that help to mask noises in order to keep improve your focus and boost your productivity.

Can't stop scrolling? Have trouble focusing? Forest is the cutest focus timer to help you stay focused and boost productivity. Free on android. There is a charge for iOS.

Flora is a new way to stay off your phone, clear to-do lists, and build positive, life-changing habits.

Block websites, games and applications to boost your productivity and reclaim your free time.

SAM is a non-profit, community-backed wellbeing app to help you monitor and manage your mental health, with self-help techniques to help with anxiety, depression, loneliness and coping. SAM is informed by clinical best practice and academic research.

MindShift® CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.

Catch It is a joint project between the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, to help users better understand their moods through use of an ongoing diary. The app was designed to illustrate some of the key principles of psychological approaches to mental health and well-being, and specifically Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Reprograms habits fast This is the app for making new habits stick. Easy to start with and super fast to update daily.

Joyful alarm clock on Android and iOS.

Focus, from work to play with the best to do list app.

Office Lens is a great way to capture notes and information from whiteboards, menus, signs, handwritten memos, or anything with a lot of text. You don’t need to jot down notes, rely on blurry images, or worry about misplacing anything. It’s great for capturing sketches, drawings and equations too, and even images without text.

Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages. Available through Office 365.

Free notetaking app for personal use. Capture information in notes, lists, photos, and audio. Set a location-based reminder right when you get to the store. Set a time-based reminder to make sure you never miss a thing.