Educational Technology

October 20, 2010

Blind help blind to get online

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by AAP

Two blind computer programmers have developed a free software program so other visually impaired people can join the online world. The free program generates a synthetic voice to read the words on a computer screen as the cursor passes over them. Queensland University of Technology graduate James Teh and business partner Michael Curran developed the program because existing screen reader software was prohibitively expensive at upwards of $US1000.

http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/blind-help-get-online-3817488

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