Products intended to support or replace a person’s capacity to receive, send, produce and process information in different forms, including communicating by language, signs and symbols, receiving and producing messages, carrying on conversations and using communication devices and techniques. Included are, e.g. devices for seeing, hearing, reading, writing, telephoning, signalling and alarming, information technology. Assistive products for office administration, information storage and management. at work, see >28 21

Media for storing written data to present it in spoken form

Software based system able to transform digital documents (e.g. text files) into voice output

Web based services that transform digital documents into audio files

Assistive products for seeing, see >22 03

Products that store written or print information and present that information using. more than one medium, e.g. audio and visual

Operating sticks, see >241815

Reading tables, desks and stands, see >180306. Bed tables, see >180315. Manuscript holders, see >241824

Devices that enable a limited area of text to be visible at one time

Devices for reading and transforming written text into alternative forms of visual, auditory and tactile communication

Software used for the scanning and recognition of documents. Included are e.g. OCR software with text-to-speech technology.

Hardware system that transforms the text written in paper document into alternative forms (e.g. enlarged text, synthetic speech, or tactile).

Media for presenting the content in Braille. Included are, e.g. books and other printed materials in Braille.

Software used to link and show different kinds of displays and images, cartoons, animation and synchronized sound