Seeing-Eye Computer Guides Blind

sushant_bhatia writes "Wired News has a story about seeing-eye computer guides for the blind. This is an interesting piece on efforts at Arizona State University and Wright State University to provide features for individuals who are blind. A very interesting project is called the iCare Reader, which allows any individual who is blind to read a normal library book through this product, which 'uses optical character-recognition software along with other software that compensates for different lighting conditions and orientations of the text.' Further details on this can be found at The Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (Cubic)."

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Re:ATM's

[holden caufield]

You obviously don't have (or haven't noticed) a headphone jack on the ATMs. I personally haven't used it, but I suspect this is the solution to "how is a blind person supposed to know what's on the screen?"