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Blind Inventors revolutionizs computer access
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 07 October 2010, 00:35 IST |
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Brisbane: Though there are methods through which visually impaired people can use a computer, now, it has been simplified by inventors who themselves are blind. Two Blind inventors James The and his partner Michael Curran at Queensland University of Technology has developed a free open source programme that provide a synthetic voice to read the content on the computer screen as the cursor movers over them. This Non Visual Desktop Access allows visually challenged person to work on same proportion just like a sighted person can.
James Teh says, "We are in an information era and everything here moves online, so we want our software to be free so that even the blind and vision impaired can use the computer easily". For this Teh and Curran they have drawn their own experience as blind computer users to develop this kind of product. They further added saying that, this software can also be copied to any USB stick from where it can be used at schools or universities without any installation done.
This NVDA has been translated in 27 languages and both the inventors express their regards to the volunteer translators.
Teh and Curran have large future plans, that also includes touch screen options for blind and vision impaired, but in maintain the independent and integrity of their product, these inventors success totally depended on the availability of further funding.
