STEAM Tools

Accessible Digital Graphing Calculators

Audio Graphing Calculator

• Describing the graph with audio tones and cues
• Tactile output to braille / Micro Capsule Paper

Desmos Graphing Calculator

Description: The Desmos graphing calculator is an accessible graphing calculator that works with screen access software, and provides auditory cues with accompanied visual graphs.

Price: Free
Manufacturer: Desmos
Product Page: Desmos Graphing Calculator
Features:

• Screen reader accessible including support of MathQuill with MathSpeak to have keyboard entry of math symbols read by screen reader
  • Multiple samples and Examples, and LaTeX entry commands
• Print or share graph with or without grid lines to put through Thermo Imaging Device or Embosser (currently supporting .png)

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Accessible Scientific Calculators

Orion TI84 +

Description: The Orion TI-84 Plus is a fully accessible, talking graphing calculator designed for blind and visually impaired students and professionals. Built on the standard TI-84 Plus design, it delivers speech, audio, and haptic feedback to announce keypresses, read screen contents, and allow multi-modal exploration of graphs.

Price: $699
Manufacturer: Orbit Research
Product Page: Orion TI84+
Features:

• Handheld talking scientific calculator
• Select voice profile and rate
• Audio and haptic feedback for graphs

Orion TI-30X Scientific Calculator

Description: The Orion TI-30XS Multi-View Talking Scientific Calculator is a fully accessible handheld scientific calculator designed for visually impaired students from middle school through college. It features clear spoken output for screen entries, menu options, and keypresses, while maintaining the same LCD display and functionality as the standard TI-30XS.

Price: $579
Manufacturer: Orbit Research
Product Page: Orion TI-30X Scientific Calculator
Features:

• Full speech access with capabilities of navigating by line, word, and character
• Unique learn mode to review key functionality
• X-Y tables

SciPlus 3200 Low Vision Scientific Calculator

Description: The SciPlus 3200 Low Vision Scientific Calculator features an enlarged keypad with 0.7-inch tactile keys and a high-contrast 7-inch full-color display. Designed specifically for low-vision users, it supports advanced mathematical and statistical functions along with multiple high-contrast color display modes.

Price: $446
Manufacturer: Sight Enhancement Systems
Product Page: SciPlus 3200 Low Vision Scientific Calculator
Features:

• High resolution screen and tactile buttons
• 7 inch display with black on white, yellow on black, white on black contrast options
• Advanced mathematical and statistical capabilities

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Coding and Engineering

BallyLand

Description: This app is designed with novice users of VoiceOver in mind. This app includes comprehensive features such as, built-in speech, spoken coding panel, audio description, meaningful sound effects, and audio and visual on-screen coding output. Can be used with Ballyland 3D printable tactile grid, characters and accessories (specifically designed for the Coding apps)

Price: $2.99
Manufacturer: Sonokids
Product Page: BallyLand from the App Store
Features:

• Built-in speech
• Spoken coding panel
• Audio description
• Meaningful sound effects
• Audio and visual on-screen coding output

Blocks4All

Description: The first of its kind, this app introduces accessible block-based coding. This app is compatible with the Dash Robot from Wonder Shop and completely compatible with Voiceover.

Price: Free
Developer: Lauren Milne
Product Page:Download Blocks4All from the App store

Botley

Description: Description: This wide-eyed beeping robot teaches students to code while promoting critical thinking and problem solving. Botley comes with a 77 piece activity set - manipulatives which are used in a variety of accessible games making Botley perfect for students who are visually impaired or blind. Botley's remote control has tactile buttons and Botley emits a series of tones which help indicate what he is doing. The coding cards can quickly be modified using simple textures.

Price: $75.76
Manufacturer: Learning resources
Product Page:Botley
Features:

• Tactile buttons
  
• Auditory cues signaling the start of each new command
  
• Can hold up to 80 commands
  
• Specific routes to activate Easter eggs (Botley talks and sings)
  
• Additional accessories to increase learning opportunities
  

Code & Go Mouse Activity Set

Description: Coding is easy with Colby! The Accessible Code & Go Mouse provides a hands-on introduction to coding concepts and tactile graphics as students program Colby the mouse to race through the maze toward the cheese.

Price: $106.34 for accessible set from APH (American Printing House) | $59.99 for commercial kit
Manufacturer: Learning Resources & APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: Code and Go Mouse
Features:

• Physical manipulatives easy to grip with high contrast buttons, tactile keys, and lights and sounds
• Accessibility kit has braille on direction cards
• Activity guide has suggested lesson plans

Code Jumper

Description: Code Jumper assists students in learning computer coding and programming skills through a unique, physical system.
Note: This product has been discontinued, orders will be fulfilled until inventory is no longer available.

Price: $534 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: Microsoft and APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: Code Jumper
Features:

• Coding tool for blind students, with no prior computing experience
• Use with Windows operating system
• Physical manipulatives and auditory output to simulate block coding interfaces
• Online Student and Teacher Lesson Plans
• Available through APH (American Printing House)

CodeQuest

Description: App for IOS and Android that teaches beginning programming and computational skills including logic, orientation, and sequencing. This app involves a fun space theme; helping your astronaut cross the grid to his spaceship so he can explore the galaxy and includes 30 levels. Tactile gameboard grids are available for download through APH (American Printing House); requires you have an embosser.

Price: Free
Developer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page1: Download CodeQuest from the app store

Product Page2: Download CodeQuest from the Google Play Store

Cubelets

Description: Description: Cubelets magnetic faces make them simple to snap together and pull apart. Each Cubelet has a special function. What you connect, and how you connect them changes the behavior of your robot constructions. Every combination is a new creation.

Price: $225 ( Starter Discovery Set)
Manufacturer: Modular Robotics
Product Page: Cubelets
Features:

• Hands on problem solving
  
• Options for bulk orders for education
  
• Can request a 30 day trial kit
  
• Multisensory components for building robots
  
• Durable construction
  

Dash Robot

Description: Dash is a whimsical robot that moves, spins, talks, and makes noises. Kids select commands in the Blocks4All app that run the Dash robot. Designed specifically for students who are blind or low vision, the app utilizes large, colorful buttons and a simplistic layout and is fully accessible with VoiceOver.

Price: $189.99
Manufacturer: Wonder Workshop
Product Page: Dash Robot
Features:

• Hands-on manipulatives
  
• Tactile buttons and auditory cues
  
• Commercially available product compatible with accessible app for IOS
  

Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino

Description: With 12 step by step project tutorials provided, this is ideal for beginner and STEAM education.

Price: $24.99
Manufacturer: Seeed Technology Co.LTD
Product Page: Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino
Features:

• 12 step by step projects included
• Plug and play
• Hands-on implementation of open source hardware projects
• Shared programs and libraries

KaiBot

Description: KaiBot is a fully accessible robot kit that combines tactile learning with introductory coding concepts. At the center of the experience is the charming KaiBot robot, which students program by scanning Braille cards in the correct sequence to navigate paths, mazes, and obstacle courses they create themselves with tiles. The color-coordinated cards are organized into intuitive coding groups such as control flow, numbers, variables, and execution, making foundational programming concepts easier to understand. The kit also includes a companion app and guided lessons from Kai's Education to support structured, hands-on learning.

Price: $399 (eligible for quota funds)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: KaiBot
Features:

• A custom-built screen reader to get the most out of the app experience
  
• Personalization - students can decorate both the physical KaiBot and its digital representation
  
• Highly engaging, democratized coding
  
• Constant interest fostered by novel obstacle courses, puzzles, and mazes
  
• Self-voicing app that describes each step KaiBot makes
  

OctoStudio4+

Description: This app uses block-based coding similar to the Scratch coding language. Users create characters and animations that are accessible with Voiceover.

Price: Free
Developer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Product Page1: Download OctoStudio4+ from the app store

Product Page 2: Download OctoStudio4+ from the app store

Quorum

Description: A100% accessible coding language built on text entry. Learn using an adaptation of code.org's online curriculum for the College Board's Computer Science Principles Course.

Price: Free
Manufacturer: The Quorum Programming Language
Product Page: Quorum
Features:

• Accessible coding language
• Online curriculum and Hour of Code activities
• EPIQ (Experience Programming in Quorum) conference

RC Snap Rover Access Kit

Description: The RC Snap Rover Access Kit is an innovative tool that provides hands-on electronics education for students. Snap together colorful Snap Circuits parts to build an RC Snap Rover that can zoom across any surface with the included wireless remote control.

Price: $109
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: RC Snap Rover Access Kit
Features:

• Braille labeled parts
  
• Accessible online instructions
  
• Compatible with Snap Circuit Jr and Snapino Access Kit
  

Snap Circuits Brick Structures Access Kit

Description: Build an understanding of construction and electronics, one brick at a time!

Price: $59 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: Snap Circuits Brick Structures Access Kit
Features:

• 26 projects
  
• Step by step instructions
  
• Braille labeling
  
• Adapted commercially available product
  

Snap Circuit JR. Access Kit

Description: Snap Circuits Jr.130 Access Kit teaches children eight and older about circuits, current, resistance, switches, motors, and other basic electronics concepts.

Price: $121 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: Snap Circuit JR. Access Kit
Features:

• Multiple projects
  
• Adapted commercially available product
  
• Braille labeling
  
• Accessible instructions in digital format
  

Snapino Access Kit

Description: Calling all aspiring programmers! Snapino, a commercially available product, has been made accessible for students who are blind and visually impaired.

Price: $89 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: Snapino Access Kit
Features:

• Educational toy recommended for children ages 12-112 that teaches users about coding and electronics
  
• Can be used in a computer science class or after school computer club
  
• Allows learners to implement their knowledge of coding gained from Code Jumper as they use Snapino to create code
  
• Compatible with Arduino UNO programs and circuits
  
• Compatible with Snap Circuits Jr. Use both products together to design larger circuits with speech capabilities
  
• Braille labeled parts mounted on plastic modules that snap together
  

Sphero Bolt+ Coding Robot

Description: The Sphero BOLT+ features a high-contrast 128x128 vivid LCD screen alongside built-in programmable sounds and light animations, giving visually impaired students high-visibility visual cues and immediate auditory feedback while coding. Combined with tactile sensor inputs such as shake-to-wake activation and physical movement control. It enables learners to program and interact with the robot through multi-sensory channels beyond traditional text.

Price: $199
Manufacturer: Sphero
Product Page: Sphero Bolt+ Coding Robot
Features:

• Use in tandem with the Code Snaps app for IOS
  
• Durable construction
  
• Can support coding using braille coding blocks or tactile coding blocks, found by visiting this lesson plan web page from Perkins
  
• Supports multiple coding languages
  

Swift Playgrounds

Price: Free
Developer: Apple
Product Page: Swift Playgrounds

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Math Access

Equatio

Description: Equatio is a Chrome extension that allows the creation of accessible math that can be exported in a variety of formats. Support for both math and chemical equations.

Price: $179 per year for an individual license
Manufacturer: Texthelp Ltd
Product Page: Equatio
Features:

• A math extension that makes handwritten or math images into digital accessible content
• Accessible math content can be integrated into G-suite applications
• Support for speech to text

Equalize Editor

Price: Free
Manufacturer: Lake Pines Braille
Product Page: Equalize Editor
Features:

• Bidirectional Translation: Automatically translates in real time between online printed math notation and Nemeth Braille, allowing sighted and visually impaired users to read and edit the same document.
  
• Flexible Input Modes: Supports multiple typing formats, including standard QWERTY keyboard input for sighted teachers, as well as Braille and Home Row key modes for blind or visually impaired students.
  
• Screen Reader Compatibility: Fully integrates with assistive technology, offering dedicated configurations for popular screen readers like JAWS and NVDA to ensure smooth navigation.
  
• Unified English Braille Support: Fully supports contracted UEB for literary content, making it easy to create mixed documents containing standard text alongside embedded math formulas.

Math Kicker.AI

Price: Free
Manufacturer: Math Kicker
Product Page: Math Kicker.AI
Features:

• Converts Math Formats: Changes static images, screenshots, PNGs, and PDFs of math problems into Word (.docx) or HTML files.
  
• Aids Accessibility: Built to help blind and visually impaired students by making formulas readable through screen readers (like JAWS or NVDA) and tactile braille displays.
  
• Fast Processing: Translates complex equations, worksheets, and textbook pages in under a minute. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  

Mathpix

Description: Mathpix is an AI-powered document conversion platform that converts images and PDFs containing complex math, chemistry, tables, and text into editable digital formats like LaTex, Markdown, and MS Word. Designed for researchers, educators, and developers, it offers desktop and mobile apps alongside a developer API to streamline scientific writing, data extraction, and document digitization.

Price: Tiered payment plans dependent on case use
Manufacturer: Mathpix
Product Page: Mathpix
Features:

• Translates inaccessible math content into screen reader accessible materials
• Three tier pricing model; (individual, pro, and organization) with each tier allowing more pages of conversion
• Desktop snipping tool allows user to grab math & chemistry from the screen and cut to the clipboard for translation to accessible format

Math Type

Description: Create and edit math formulas with our math editor, MathType. Students, teachers, and professionals can easily write math equations across many digital platforms.

Price: $53.20 for an individual license
Manufacturer: Wiris
Product Page: MathType
Features:

• Create accessible math equations in Microsoft Word
• Equations can be read by screen readers and braille notetakers
• Can create chemical equations

Word Equation Editor

Description: Create fully accessible math equations for blind and low vision students. Blind and low vision users can enter math themselves. Compatible with LaTex.

Price: Free
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product Page: Word Equation Editor
Features:

• Native to Microsoft Word
  
• Keyboard entry
  
• Accessible with screen readers
  
• Capable of translating handwritten and uploaded pictures to accessible math
  

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Science Tools

Build A Cell

Description: Build and discover the different characteristics of bacterial, animal, and plant cells with Build-A-Cell.

Price: $253.72 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page: Build A Cell
Features:

• Bacterial, animal, and plant cell templates with colored tactile external structures surrounding an interior of black loop material where the cell's internal structures and organelles can be attached
  
• A rod-shaped bacterial cell template with colored tactile external structures including a capsule, cell wall, cell membrane, fimbriae, and flagellum
  
• One set of bacterial cell internal structures including the nucleoid, ribosomes, polysomes, and plasmids
  
• An oblong animal cell template with a colored tactile representation of the cell membrane
  
• One set of animal cell organelles and internal structures including the nucleus, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosome, peroxisome, cytoskeleton, ribosomes, mitochondrion, and centrosome
  
• A rectangular plant cell template with colored tactile external structures including the cell wall and cell membrane
  
• One set of plant organelles and internal structures including the nucleus, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, peroxisome, cytoskeleton, ribosomes, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole
  
• Different cell models readily available for students and teachers
  
• Models that can be used in a lesson and to assess understanding of related concepts
  

DNA-RNA Kit

Description: An accessible, interactive model that demonstrates the formation of single and double strands of DNA, DNA replication, and transcription of DNA to messenger RNA.

Price: $140.75 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page:DNA-RNA Kit
Features:

• 32 interlocking DNA subunits
  
• 32 interlocking RNA subunits
  
• Large print guidebook
  
• Storage box

DNA Twist

Description: An accessible, interactive model that demonstrates the formation of single and double strands of DNA, DNA replication, and transcription of DNA to messenger RNA.

Price: $70.40 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page:DNA Twist
Features:

• Large print instructions
  
• Contrasting colors and textures
  

Protein Synthesis Kit

Description: An accessible, interactive model that allows students to decode a strand of messenger RNA with the genetic code and create transfer RNA molecules that bring amino acids in the correct order to form a protein.

Price: $363.82 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page:Protein Synthesis Kit
Features:

• 64 transfer RNA subunits
  
• 6 Stop Release factor subunits
  
• 4 Start Methionine subunits
  
• Two sets of all 20 amino acids
  
• APH Genetic Code Large Print Braille
  
• Large print guidebook Storage/carry-box, large enough to hold this kit and the DNA-RNA Kit
  

Submersible Audio Light Sensor

Description: SALS makes science activities more accessible than ever! The device has a plastic-covered glass tube with a rectangular box on one end. The tip of the glass tube detects light, and the box converts light to a tone and sends the signal to an app (compatible with iOS , Android, and MATT Connect).

Price: $53 (federal quota fund eligible)
Manufacturer: APH (American Printing House)
Product Page:Submersible Audio Light Sensor
Features:

• Waterproof probe
  
• Free iOS or Android app
  
• Makes many science activities accessible to students with vision impairments
  
• Can be paired with Adapted Science Materials Kit