About AssistiveWare^®

AssistiveWare is a trade name of AssistiveWare B.V. AssistiveWare develops innovative assistive technology software products. Assistive technology software assists people in their computer use and ranges from accessibility products that provide disabled people access to a computer to convenience products that facilitate repetive computer tasks.

AssistiveWare is currently offering several assistive technology software products and there are more to come later. The current products are:

Proloquo2Go is a ground-breaking Augmentative and Alternative Communication solution for iPhone and iPod touch.

Proloquo^® is a multi-purpose, multilingual speech solution for Mac OS X that provides: (1) a full-fledged communication system (AAC) for people who cannot speak; (2) improves accessibility of Mac OS X for people with visual impairments; (3) provides speech feedback in any application while typing for children and people with learning disabilities; (4) can serve as a talking word processor; (5) provides text to speech for people who prefer listening to reading; (6) can be used as a tool to learn the pronunciation of foreign languages; (7) provides an advanced, multilingual speech engine for our KeyStrokes^® on-screen keyboard and our SwitchXS^® switch access solution.

LayoutKitchen^® is an editor for SwitchXS^® scan panels and Proloquo^® speech panels. SwitchXS users can use LayoutKitchen to create their own scan panels (sometimes also referred to as scan keyboards) with just those keys, controls and functions they need, thereby greatly enhancing the power and versatility of SwitchXS. Proloquo users can use LayoutKitchen to create their own speech panels for easy access of commonly used phrases or, when images are used on the buttons, to build communication panels for people who cannot read or write.

KeyStrokes^® is an on-screen virtual keyboard. KeyStrokes, is the first fully functional on-screen keyboard to run natively on Apple's next generation operating system and one of the first accessibility solutions bringing the power of Mac OS X to people with disabilities. The integrated Dwellix™ utility provides system-wide dwell based clicking, which allows mouse button clicks to be entered by simply holding the cursor motionless for a programmable period of time. It can also be used to type without clicking. KeyStrokes provides advanced multilingual word prediction. Thanks to its revolutionary PolyPredix™ word prediction engine it can do word completion, next word prediction and even multi-word prediction in any Roman language as well as many other languages. The PolyPredix™ prediction engine offers many unique, time and effort saving features allowing significantly easier and faster typing.

SwitchXS^® provides virtually complete access to Mac OS X and all standard Mac applications for people who can only use one or more switches. It offers full mouse and keyboard emulation by means of a so-called scanning mode. With each click on the switch the user selects an action, such as "move the cursor up" or "type B", from a "scanning" menu. SwitchXS is typically used by people who are, for example, quadriplegic due to an accident, or suffering from neuromotor diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) with very limited limb movement.

TouchStrokes^® is a basic, but fully-functional, on-screen keyboard for Mac OS 9 or higher and Mac OS X 10.1.3 or higher targeted at server management, touch screen kiosks, graphic tablets, and couch surfing.

VisioVoice^® is an application that enhances access to Mac OS X for blind and vision impaired users. It adds multilingual support to Apple's excellent VoiceOver screen reader technology for a number of languages, as well as providing several other speech and vision related features to enhance access to Mac OS X. VisioVoice comes bundled with Infovox iVox, which provides the best voices ever on the Mac in a wide range of languages.

Infovox iVox provides Mac OS X users with the best voices ever on the Mac. You won't believe your ears hearing these naturally-sounding voices, available in many different languages. What is more, they can be used in any Mac OS X application that uses speech. Including applications such as TextEdit, Preview, Acrobat Reader, Proloquo, KeyStrokes, SwitchXS, VisioVoice and AppleWorks, as well as many educational titles.

AssistiveWare and ConvenienceWare are trade names of AssistiveWare B.V. and trademarks or registered trademarks of Niemeijer Consult. Proloquo, Proloquo2Go, KeyStrokes, TouchStrokes, SwitchXS, LayoutKitchen, Dwellix, PolyPredix, VisioVoice, GhostReader, SmartTransparency and the salamander logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Niemeijer Consult. Infovox iVox is a trademark of Acapela Group. HeadMouse is a registered trademark of Origin Instruments. Macintosh, Power Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.