Libraries for the Blind and Print Disabled

The intent of this page is to share news regarding computer software that most of us use. Herein forthcoming release dates are posted along with links to offline installers.

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• Microsoft Windows 8.1 - October 18, 2013
• iOS7 - Fall 2013

Also worth noting, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8, 2014

Offline installers are executable files that can be downloaded and used to install on computers without Internet connections. They are nice when the file is very large - like a Service Pack upgrade from Microsoft - or when a particular program is having problems downloading a program - like Adobe Flash not downloading because of Active X problems in Internet Explorer.

• Adobe Acrobat 9.x – 10.x – 11.x
• Adobe Reader 11.x

NOTE: Adobe Acrobat is software you purchase to create PDFs. Adobe Reader is a free program used to view and fill out PDFs.

• Adobe Flash
• Java

• NVDA (Free screen reader)

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (For computers running Windows XP)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (For computers running Windows Vista)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 (For computers running Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows 8)
• Mozilla Firefox

• Apache Open Office (Free alternative to Microsoft Office)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Service Packs: SP1 (Released: June 27, 2011) – SP2 (Released: July 16, 2013)
• Microsoft Office 2013 Service Packs: [None available as of 8/18/2013]