An Open Source Seeing Eye Dog for Web Surfers

Jul 19, 2008, 14:26 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Donna Gordon Blankinship)

"Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than US$1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation."

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