WHAT KIND OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IS AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
Perhaps it’s hard to imagine how people with little or no vision can perform in today’s competitive work place – but advances in computer technology have opened opportunities for full and productive employment never before thought possible. Learning to compensate for vision loss takes work, diligence, focus and courage — Skills demonstrated by VISIONS job candidates! COMPUTER & INTERNET ACCESS: People who are blind and visually impaired use the same computers as sighted people. With the addition of large print or synthetic voice software, virtually any pc or mainframe can be made accessible.Click here for a vendor sponsored demonstration of large print and synthetic speech www.aisquared.com. READING PRINT:About 80% of people who are “legally blind” have some degree of usable vision and can read print with optical or electronic magnifiers.People who are totally blind read print with the use of optical character recognition systems – devices which translate print to synthetic speech or
