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Tuesday, September 10, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/09/09/mouse.blind.reut/index.html Computer mouse for the blind developed Reuters Scientists looking for ways to help blind people get more out of computers have developed a mouse that goes bump and combined it with sound representations of graphs that would otherwise be inaccessible. Mike Burton of Glasgow University told reporters at the British Association for the Advancement of Science annual festival the mouse vibrated every time it met a line on a graph, giving a blind operator a tactile tip-off. "The technique is a very good way of presenting information to blind and sighted people," he said. "The bottom line is that the cheapest and most flexible solution works." ...
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