Accessible Media

This page contains information on software products and/or Web sites that are especially accessible to deaf and hard of hearing individuals either through captioning or the use of sign language.

Microsoft Software With Closed Captions

• Encarta Encyclopedia 98 and 99 (related info) (11/97)
• Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest (11/98)
• Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs (11/98) Mastering Microsoft Office 97 Development
• Mastering MFC Development Using Visual C++ 6.0
• Mastering MFC Development Using Visual C++ 5.0
• Mastering MFC Development Using Visual C++
• Mastering Visual J++
• Mastering Web Site Development Using Visual InterDev
• Mastering Web Site Fundamentals
• Mastering Access 97 Development (ATEC Only)
• Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Fundamentals
• Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Fundamentals
• Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic Fundamentals
• Mastering Enterprise Development Using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
• Mastering Web Application Development Using Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0
• Mastering Distributed Application Design and Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
• ActiMates TV Pack (for ActiMates Barney) (09/99)

Software from the Texas School for the Deaf

• The Gift of the Magi (11/97)
• Aesop's Fables (10/96)
• Rosie's Walk review (11/95)
• Retreived Information (06/00)

All titles are signed, spoken and captioned. Available from:
Harris Communications
Distributor for Sign Enhancers, Inc.
15159 Technology Dr.
Eden Prairie, MN 55344-2277
http://www.harriscomm.com/

Captioned Software from Cambridge Educational

• Business 101
• Contemporary Nutrition
• Interactive Honor Roll
• Moving On Up An Interactive Guide to Finding a Great Job
• Objectionable Actions? An Interactive Look At Sexual Harassment Situation
• Under the Influence: An Interactive Look at Alcohol

Captioned Software from Clearvue/eav
(also known as Zane Publishing)

• History Through Literature series 12 CDs (07/00)
• Classification of Animals Series 3 CDs (07/00)
• Classification of Simple Organisms and Invertebartes (07/00)
• Art of Seeing (07/00)
• Classification of Vertebrates (07/00)
• Native American Rock Art of the Southwest (07/00)
• The Five Senses (07/00)
• Communicable And Noncommunicable Diseases (07/00)
  

Captioned Software From PBS

• 50 Years War, The: Israel and the Arabs 2PK (DVD Video Plus)
• American Experience, The: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, A David Grubin Productions, Inc. Film 3PK (DVD Gold Plus)
• American Experience, The: Return With Honor (DVD Video Plus)
• American Experience, The: The Democrats 4PK (DVD Video Plus)
• American Experience, The: The Republicans 4PK (DVD Video Plus)
• American President, The: 5PK (DVD Video Plus)
  Blast! (DVD Gold Plus)
• Greeks, The: Crucible of Civilization (DVD Gold Plus)
• Ken Burns: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 10PK (DVD Gold Plus)
  Ken Burns: Jazz: 10PK (DVD Gold Plus)
• Life Beyond Earth (DVD Video Plus)
• Ocean Wilds (DVD Video Plus)
• Stephen Hawking's Universe: 3PK (DVD Video Plus)
• Captioned Software from SVE/Churchill

Educational Software from Other Vendors/Publishers

• Windmill Works (10/98)
  Language Shape-Up "Specifically designed for deaf/hard-of-hearing students and those learning English as a second language."
• Institute for Disabilities Research and Training
  Paws Signs Stories (01/99)
  signed by Linda Bove of Sesame Street
• Humongous Entertainment (10/99)
  captioned CDs
• SigningAvatar (6/00)
  3D characters that communicate in sign language
• Soliel (6/00)
  captioned CDs
• Thomas S. Klise Company (6/00)
  captioned CDs

Software Reviews

• Resource Materials Center for the Hearing Impaired
  Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind's list of recommended titles
  
• Review of IBM's SpeechViewer III

Sign Language Instruction Software

• American Sign Language Phrase Book CD-ROM (3/2002)
• American Sign Language Vocabulary CD-ROM (3/2002)
• ASL SLanT (3/2001)
• American Sign Language CD-ROM (3/2001)
• IDRT Sign Language products (3/2001)
• Hyper Sign (03/25/1999)
• The Art of Interpreting ASL (6/2000)
• ASL Grammatical Aspects Course CD-ROM (6/2000)
• Fingerspelling & Numbers Interactive Sign Language (6/2000)
• Serious Signing (8/2000)
• Ready! Set! Sign! (PDF file) http://www.readysetsign.com/ (01/30/2003)

Sign Language/Manual Alphabet On-Line

• The Animated American Sign Language Dictionary
• Sign Language Dictionary Online
• ASL Spelling Study: The Alphabet
• Fingerspeller Trainer
• GG Whiz's Finger Speller
• American Sign Language Fonts
• American Sign Language Browser
• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
• Handspeak: A Practical Sign Language Dictionary Online
  

• Resource Materials Center for the Hearing Impaired
• Apple's Disability Connection
• Closing the Gap
• Multimedia PC and accessibility
  (an article from CTG by Wayne English)
• Don Johnston Inc.
• IBM Special Needs Systems
• Microsoft's Accessibility and Disabilities Web site
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• NCAM's CD-ROM Access Project
• Sun Brings Power of JAVA to Users with Disabilities
• CAP-Media, Inc.
• Captioned Media Program
  formerly the Captioned Films/Video Program
• Equal Access to Software and Information
• TecEds's Suggestions for Developers
  

• National Center to Improve the Quality of Technology, Media and Materials: Research Synthesis
  Design of effective media, materials and technology for deaf and hard-of-hearing students

Copyright © 2002, All Rights Reserved TecEds Reviews
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
202/651 5043 (voice/tty) 5109 (fax)
iscs.clerccenter@gallaudet.edu (e-mail)
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