Drawing For The Blind

Posted by timothy on Monday July 1, 2002 @12:12AM from the but-not-the-colorblind dept.

idletask writes: "Hesham Kamel, a student from University of Berkeley who lost his vision 17 years ago due to a surgeon error, imagined and implemented IC2D (Integrated Communication 2 Draw), a program allowing visually impaired people in general to create computer graphics. The interface to the program is a mere telephone keypad, and it uses voice synthesis to communicate with the user. In fact, this program reveals, through its testers, that yes, blind people know how to draw, and they're as good at it as other people. More information on this program can be found here (1) and here (2). Story found on ArsTechnica."

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Re:What? by sinserve · 2002-07-01 02:02 · Score: -1, Flamebait

The guy is an arab, and his real name is Camel, so he got nothing from the
drunk doctor.
Attn slashdot editors by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-01 02:12 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I know you moron Slashdot editors absolutely abhor fact checking your articles and gaining any resemblence of journalistic intregrity, but I thought you might like to know that the name of the university is the "University of California at Berkeley." If you're looking to save space you could just say "UC Berkeley."