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New software lets blind surf the net
Ankita , Mumbai: Jun 30 2008
Made Popular Jun 30 2008
University of Washington experts say that they have written new software, WebAnywhere, which can enable blind and visually impaired people to surf the Internet at any place. Richard Ladner, a professor of computer science and engineering, has revealed...
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Nithya N
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Nithya N Aug 11 2008
Mumbai, India
A computerized ”seeing” assistant that will help blind people read e-books, access web pages is brilliant! I thought a blind person would navigate around the screen with the keyboard, but there are some sites that don’t work so well with keyboard alone and have some mouse-driven applications, so the audio file to play in the user’s web browser is excellent. Also the fact that you don’t need to install anything makes it so cool.
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