Visual+Impaired+and+Screen+Readers

**Visual Impaired and Screen Readers**
[|Visual] Blindness, low vision, color-blindness For reasons unknown too many certain people are born with visual blindness and with others it is brought on by poor health choices. Even though there are blind people in the world, they still need access to computers and the web. This is made possible by, what is known as a screen reader. Screen readers are software applications that attempt to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the computer screen. Due to their impairment of not being able to see, the screen reader helps the visually impaired to go to a place on the screen they are trying to reach. When the internet was introduced and Web 2.0 technologies became available, people with disabilities were not considered. Web page developers assumed that everyone was the same and could access their site without problem. This is apparent by the introduction of Assistive Technologies (AT). The AT, although introduced to assist those with disabilities, are helpful and beneficial to all who use them. Some of the current text to speech technologies that are available are: Natural Reader, EdBrowse, Spoken Web, Read Please, and Thunder Speech Reader. This is only a short list of free text to speech readers. There are several readers that can be downloaded from the internet and used for personal use. The reader that a person chooses is up to him or her, whichever fits their personality (real voice or computer generated).

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