How does a blind person use a computer?

Question

So its just basically like using a phone then?

Answer 1

they have braile keyboards, and can have the page either read to them, or there or programs that can read the page through speakers. i dont personally know, i am just guessing this is how, i have a neighbor who is blind but talks about this website and that website all the time.

Answer 2

There are various adaptive technologies. One is an optical scanner or 'reading machine' which scans printed material and reads it back into a computer or voice synthesizer. Newer systems may only need a USB and the scanner. Optical scanners can also use stand alone OCR systems (pricier).

For those who are legally blind but still have some vision, there are screen enlargement systems that use software and can enlarge text up to 16 times or CCTV systems that use modified motion cameras to magnify text and display it on a monitor.

JAWS is one brand of a Speech Access System that can read what appears on the monitor. These systems give auditory feedback from menus, dialogue boxes and other Windows based messages.

Braille Output uses a refreshable Braille device to display up to 80 characters that correspond to a single line of text on the monitor. The user can scroll from line to line and the Braille cells refresh and output the new line of text. Also Braille documents can be created using a Braille conversion porgram and specialized Braille paper. These documents can then be read by the visually impaired who are familiar with Braille.

All of these porgrams and a couple of others that I didn't mention work on the Windowns 95/98 systems and most work on Windows NT and 2000. Most commercial programs such as Quicken and Office 2000 work with adaptive technology without a hitch, but if a program has audio output, it can conflict with speech output porgrams. Prices vary widely depending on the system and the software. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

There is plenty of hardware and software today that accommodates blind people. So that they can input information into a computer, there are braille keyboards as well as voice processing tools that will take commands from the user or type what the user says. Macs, for example, come with Voice Objects which recognize simple commands. Dragon Speak is an application used to convert speech to text and I believe there is a similar tool built into some Windows version.

For output, there are programs that will output in audio what is on the screen. I imagine it would be difficult to get used to. Mac comes with a program called VoiceOver.

As for the future, I'm sure there is much more to come to make computers more accessible and usable.

Answer 4

I don't think many blind people do much with a computer, however there is accessibility software that continually reads the text of the screen around the cursor position. There is also quite a bit done with voice recognition software. So I suppose that a blind person could do some tasks.

Answer 5

well i'm considered legally blind that means that i can see a little bit i am totally blind in my right eye and in my left is limited i was born with my optic nerves not fully developed so i've been like this all my life it's gotten a little worse with age i use big print i learned how to type when i was in school and on your comps you have a magnifier and also you can make your screen bigger and such but yes totally blind peeps they use brail and speakers

Answer 6

we touch type
use jaws to read the screen wich is a ltalking program which also helps with shortcuts
we use a computer for most things because we kcan not see what we write and it is so useful

Answer 7

Braile keyboards and speakers

Answer 8

They use a BRAIL keyboard

Answer 9

same as you

Answer 10

with their fingers I guess.