Assistive Technology Grants for Blind & Low Vision Minnesotans

Providing assistive technologies to blind & low vision individuals to give them greater independence in their daily lives.

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The technology we provide often includes text to speech software to make using a computer easier, talking GPS to help with independent mobility, and mobile document readers that work on cell phones.

Eye-Link Minnesota was created to provide funding resources for visually impaired residents who cannot afford these costly assistive technologies.

Some of the Technologies We Provide:

Optical Character Recognition

Combines video magnification and text-to-speech features into a single desktop video magnifier. The OCR camera displays a document on the screen. It then processes the document and reads it aloud.

SmartLux Handheld Digital Magnifier

A portable handheld video magnifier that will aid in viewing pill bottles, menus, stove top dials and shopping lists.

Video Magnifier

Projects a magnified image of printed text, handwriting, and photographs onto a large monitor. CCTV helps the visually impaired to read printed materials and see what they are writing.

BrailleNote

BrailleNote is a specialized computer with a braille keyboard, text-to-speech synthesizer, and braille output display. BrailleNote is commonly used in work and school environments.

JAWS

Job Access with Speech (JAWS) is a software package to convert on-screen text elements into text-to-speech or braille display.

ZoomText Screen Magnification Software

ZoomText Screen Magnifier is a screen magnifier for Microsoft Windows that assists the visually impaired by increasing the size of font and characters.

Desktop & Laptop Computers

A powerful and reliable computer is necessary to run software such as JAWS.