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Just been in a meeting with my faculty's disability support people, where they said they were trying to buy an accessible scientific calculator for a visually impaired student to use in exams.

Googling, I found this - https://www.visionaid.co.uk/calculators/sciplus-3300---scientific-calculator-with-speech - which has the assistive tech margin added for a cost of £535!

Meanwhile, I know the Desmos calculator is accessible and free, so it'd be cheaper to just buy a cheap tablet or laptop and use that!

Are there any other accessible scientific calculators that they should look at?

I mean, they're not hard to make in software. I've made several myself.

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