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Peripherals for the Visually Impaired?
schmiddy asks: "My father, a self-proclaimed Internet junkie, recently lost most of his eyesight, but he can still see a bit out of his right eye (enough to read magnified text on a monitor, with a narrow field of view). As he spends a large amount of his time surfing the web and reading, he's been finding it hard to cope. I've seen a lot of cool toys out there for the rest of us, but can the Slashdot crowd recommend any special monitors, peripherals, or (preferably (F)OSS) text to speech or other software that would help? I think he would much rather continue reading the old-fashioned way than having to use a hack like a Braille output. Also, what about the idea of simply using a large TV screen as a computer monitor?"
Search the Fine Web in other words. (Many crude people will substitute other words for fine) This has been covered on ask slashdot before. There are other blind people out there, and they have got around various problems.
Check out How To Ask Questions The Smart Way and follow the instructions. Until you prove you have done some legwork yourself I don't see why I should care. Oh, and once you have done the leg work you questions can actually be of interest and perhaps help us improve. IE, if you install and watch your dad using some accessability thing you can tell us what doesn't work so we can fix it. Or once you have done the obvious things that your work revealed you can tell us what you have done (so we don't go over that ground), and ask about situations that are not covered.