Make PDFs more accessible and actionable for students and professionals

Using OrbitNote allows for seamless collaboration whether at university or in the workplace. It makes PDFs and documents more readily accessible.

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Why choose OrbitNote for DSA students and Access to Work recipients?

Enable users to interact and understand content in accessible PDFs.

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Enables users with dyslexia to access text in PDFs

For students and employees that are faced with reading and writing challenges due to dyslexia, OrbitNote helps to make inaccessible PDFs more accessible and interactive. With tools like Text-to-Speech and vocabulary support, users with dyslexia can be empowered to digest large pieces of information at their own pace, and in a way that suits them.

For DSA students

OrbitNote’s text tool enables students to customise PDFs and access them in the same way as other content types.

For Access to Work recipients

Tools in OrbitNote like Screen Masking reduce cognitive load and help users to maintain focus while interacting with large chunks of text.

Supports people with ADHD to focus

With a host of annotation tools, users can leave comments, voice notes, and mark up the document, without having to switch between documents or use paper-based text. This is a huge support for users who face challenges with focus and overwhelm.

For DSA students

For students who need a little extra help to focus and stay on task, the Screen masking and screen ruler tools are ideal. They mask off reading areas and block out distractions.

For Access to Work recipients

OrbitNote’s Voice Note feature is the perfect way for employees to leave quick annotations in documents, either for themselves or their colleagues. Keeping them on task, and without the need to switch to a separate program.

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Helping users with dyspraxia to edit documents in one place

For people with dyspraxia, transposing information from one document to another can be challenging. OrbitNote helps to make inaccessible text in PDFs more accessible and editable. So students and employees with dyspraxia can interact with and edit text all in one place, without having to type, or copy it to an alternative document.

For DSA students

Students who are studying online journals, or other PDFs can use the highlight tools and voice notes to highlight important sections of text, while leaving voice comment to look back on at a later date.

For Access to Work recipients

OrbitNote’s text tool supports employees who struggle with reading or processing written information. Hearing text read aloud can improve focus and gets the task completed in less time.

Features

OrbitNote turns inaccessible text into accessible PDFs

Text-to-Speech

Reads words, passages, or whole documents aloud with easy-to-follow dual colour highlighting.

Freehand Drawing

To scribble and draw on your PDF to complete assignments or highlight important information.

Highlighters

Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarising research and to create bibliographies.

Text

Lets you type text on top of the PDF.

One Click OCR Scanning

eadable image-only PDFs at the touch of a button.

Use anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Our OrbitNote toolbar will work alongside most applications whether you use Windows, or Mac.

67,720 people in FY 2023/24 received an access to work grant.
In FY2019/20 75,900 students from England and Wales received DSA.
We have been supplying our tools through Access to Work and DSA for more than 25 years.

Frequently asked questions

What’s included in an OrbitNote DSA subscription?

A subscription means students can enjoy the benefits of OrbitNote across all platforms including Windows, Mac, and Google Chrome.

Our support site gives you, and the people you support, access to lots of common questions that other users of our software have about the technical stuff. If you can't find what you're looking for there, then our Tech Support team is on hand at support@texthelp.com 9-5pm every day to help with troubleshooting or technical problems.

DSA licenses of Read&Write, ClaroRead, and Equatio now include OrbitNote.

How can I access OrbitNote if I have an Access to Work grant?

Access to Work licenses of Read&Write and ClaroRead now include OrbitNote.