Disability Support: Assistive Software & Productivity tools

Productivity Tools and Assistive Software

These pages give advice about freely available productivity tools for Windows, Macs, Android and iPhone designed to help:

• save you time
• make it easier to access study material
• increase your productivity

Some of the tools are built into devices; others are free to download.

Some of the tools exist on the University's software downloading platform AppsAnywhere - which is available for Windows only.  AppsAnywhere allows you to download software from an online webspace on to your computer for the duration of your working session. When you have finished working the software will disappear from your computer.

• Tools to set up your computer to look and work the way that suits you

• Text to speech tools for when you'd rather listen and not read

• Voice recognition tools to enable your computer to write out what you say

• Mind mapping tools for planning and idea generating

• Note making tools for writing and organising your thoughts

• Writing tools to check grammar and look up the meaning of words