High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Access IS is the UK`s largest independent computer keyboard manufacturer. More widely, Access IS designs and manufactures products to input data into computer systems. In addition to making keyboards where an operator types the information into a system, other Access IS hardware reads data from various media, particularly from printed barcodes, magnetic stripe media (for example, information stored on the magnetic strip on the back of a credit card) and through optical character recognition (for example, reading the text printed on traditional passports).