Accessible technology study room PCs and further information for Students

Information Services can implement specialist IT adjustments that have been requested for disabled students’ essay-based exams by the Disability and Learning Support Service. This service is only available for centrally-bookable exams.

Once we receive an adjustments schedule from Student Administration, we:

• organise the necessary equipment
• meet with the student to test the setup
• remain on-call throughout the exams so as to quickly resolve any problems that arise

Please note that we are only responsible for the implementation of IT adjustments for exams.

Students requesting a new adjustment, or who want to change existing arrangements, should contact their Advisor at the Disability and Learning Support Service in the first instance.

To arrange access to these rooms, contact the Disability and Inclusive Learning Service (contact details below). The rooms are bookable through the online booking system.

These rooms are different from the general bookable accessible study rooms. Further information on those rooms can be found at:

Accessible study rooms information

There are a further seven (7) accessible study rooms on the same floor which have no specialised IT provision other than a large screen monitor. These rooms  are accessed and booked using the online booking system.

Accessible study room 1: HP Scanjet 5590 ADF scanner, SARA scanner reader, electric adjustable height desk, Kensington Orbit trackball mouse, ABBYY Finereader, Adobe Creative Cloud, MindGenius, TextHelp Read&Write, Dragon Naturally Speaking, ZoomText, Audio Notetaker and Adobe Digital Editions.

Accessible study room 2: HP Scanjet 5590 ADF scanner, electric adjustable height desk, high visibility black-on-white keyboard, Logitech marble mouse, ABBYY Finereader, Adobe Creative Cloud, MindGenius, TextHelp Read&Write , JAWS Professional, ZoomText, Audio Notetaker and Adobe Digital Editions.

Accessible study room 3: HP Scanjet 5590 ADF scanner, Prodigi document magnifier and reader unit, electric adjustable height desk, Kinesis Advantage ergonomic keyboard, Cirque Glide Point Trackpad, left hand Quill mouse, ABBYY Finereader, Adobe Creative Cloud, , JAWS, MindGenius, TextHelp Read&Write , Dragon Naturally Speaking, ZoomText, Audio Notetaker and Adobe Digital Editions.

Accessible study room 1: HP Scanjet 5590 ADF Scanner, Merlin CCTV unit, manual adjustable height desk Microsoft 4000 ergonomic keyboard, 3M ergonomic right-handed optical mouse, ABBYY Finereader, Adobe Creative Cloud, AutoCAD 2016, UniSim Design Suite, MindGenius, TextHelp Read&Write, JAWS, Audio Notetaker, Zoomtext and Adobe Digital Editions.

Accessible study room 2: HP Scanjet 5590 ADF Scanner, SARA scanner, manual adjustable height desk, Microsoft 4000 ergonomic keyboard, 3M ergonomic right-handed optical mouse. ABBYY Finereader, Adobe Creative Cloud, UniSim Design Suite, JAWS, MindGenius, TextHelp Read&Write, Audio Notetaker, Zoomtext, Dragon Naturally Speaking and Adobe Digital Editions.  

To arrange access to these rooms contact the Disability and Inclusive Learning Service (contact details below). The rooms are bookable through the online booking system. These rooms are bookable by all disabled students who have an adjustment for an accessible study room but do contain specialist assistive software and hardware as well.

Accessible PCs are available at several locations.

The Accessible PC Quick Start Guide contains information about workstation locations and the technology provided with each one. Printed copies of the Guide can be found at most APC locations.

The Guide can be provided in Braille or other formats upon request by contacting the Information Services (IS) Helpline.

Moray House, Holyrood Library, First (Entrance) floor: HP Scanjet 5590 ADF scanner, manual adjustable height desk, AirO2bic quill right handed mouse, Goldtouch adjustable keyboard and Goldtouch numerical pad, Tieman CCTV, ABBYY Finereader, Adobe Creative Cloud, MindGenius, TextHelp Read&Write , Audio Notetaker, Zoomtext, JAWS and an Adobe Digital Editions.

If you have a problem on these computers or need assistance using the software or equipment, please contact the IS Helpline.

To request this document in an alternative format, such as large print or on coloured paper, please contact Viki Galt, Head of Disability Information.

Accessible study space