Imagine yourself blindfolded (your travel eye shades will do), seated in front of your computer screen, your hands on the keyboard, ready to work. What do you do? This may seem daunting, but today's technologies turn computers into a powerful tool and an indispensable window to the world for millions of visually-impaired people worldwide. The arrival of computing has had a major impact on how visually-impaired people can live their lives and communicate — among themselves as well as with the outside world — and has extended and enriched their options enormously. Importantly, technology enables blind and ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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