Elizabeth R Petrick
Gebundenes Buch

Making Computers Accessible

Disability Rights and Digital Technology

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In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Raymond Kurzweil struck up a conversation with a blind man on a flight. Kurzweil explained that he was searching for a use for his new software. The blind man expressed interest: One of the frustrating obstacles that blind people grappled with, he said, was that no computer program could translate text into speech. Inspired by this chance meeting, Kurzweil decided that he must put his new innovation to work to ¿overcome this principal handicap of blindness.¿ By 1976, he had built a working protot...