by Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman, Jakarta Globe
At the office of the Mitra Netra Foundation for the blind, a boy, still in his senior high school uniform, is busy in front of one of the computers. Running his fingers deftly over the keyboard, he steers his way from program to program, relying on a computerized voice to read him the text on the screen. He manages to download several songs, save them in a special folder, open a text document to type his name and “read” the news online. During the past decade, several technological advances such as those at Mitra Netra have opened up a new world to people with disabilities.
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