Assistive technology rooms

There are 3 assistive technology rooms in Mearns - McPherson and the Diana M. Priestly Library. Each one has 2 computers, seating for 4 or 5, and a variety of adaptive and assistive technology. (Learn more about adaptive and assistive technology.)

Anyone who needs access to assistive hardware or software is welcome to use the these rooms on a first-come, first-served basis. You can use them whenever the libraries are open and schedule a tutorial during the day.

• • Mearns Centre - McPherson Library hours
  • Diana M. Priestly Law Library hours

Locations

Hardware

Each room has 2 Windows computers with peripherals including:

• desktop microphone
• keyboard, fully split
• keyboard, partially split
• screen glare filter
• tablet for writing and drawing
• trackball mouse
• vertical mouse, left handed
• vertical mouse, right handed
• webcam

Software

Software installed includes:

• ABBYY Fine Reader
• Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional
• Equatio
• JAWS
• Kurzweil 1000
• Kurzweil 3000
• Kurzweil 3000 Read The Web extension for Google Chrome
• Microsoft office software
• NVDA
• Read&Write extension for Google Chrome
• Respondus LockDown Browser

Accessibility and layout

These rooms have:

• fixed furniture
• low-pile carpet flooring
• adjustable lighting (Diana M. Priestly only)

Each room has a mix of different kinds of furniture including:

• height-adjustable and fixed-height desks
• padded, adjustable rolling office chairs
  • with and without armrests
  • additional stacking plastic chairs and bean bag chair (Diana M. Priestly only)