Cloud Privacy PDF reading tool helps visually impaired use computers
Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Published: April 27th, 2010
Each day I turn on my computer in the morning and after moments of waiting for the machine to boot up my eyes are greeted with the familiar icons doting the computer screen. Click on any one of them and their contents or the pages they are linked to come into view.
Rarely, if ever, do I give a thought to what I would do if suddenly the whole screen simply appeared as a plain black slate or a jumble of mushed up cloudy letters.
This, however, is a reality to perhaps millions of computer users who are either blind or visually impaired. Many of whom struggle for the lack of adequate assistive devices to accomplish tasks that others normally take for granted.
Over the years there have been many products in the market geared towards converting text into audio. However, converting more complext elements such as illustrations, graphs, images and large bodies of numbers such as financial statements have remained a challenge.
A new accessibility tool that focuses on PDF documents now promises to make such [...]