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Its latest version comes with a new "Find" mode that allows users to choose from seven item categories, including seating, tables, vehicles, utensils and bathrooms. When users choose a category ...
Microsoft today announced that Immersive Reader, its service for developers who want to add text-to-speech and reading comprehension tools to their applications, is now generally available. With ...
List of ray tracing software. Ray tracing is a technique that can generate near photo-realistic computer images. A wide range of free software and commercial software is available for producing these images. This article lists notable ray-tracing software. Software.
A screen reader is a form of assistive technology ( AT) [1] that renders text and image content as speech or braille output. Screen readers are essential to people who are blind, [2] and are useful to people who are visually impaired, [2] illiterate, or have a learning disability. [3] Screen readers are software applications that attempt to ...
The caveat is, people don’t always design software to work with accessibility technology. Designing with screen readers in mind can be very helpful, but if they don’t, that opens up whole new ...
NonVisual Desktop Access ( NVDA) is a free and open-source, portable screen reader [1] for Microsoft Windows. [2] The project was started by Michael Curran in 2006. [3] NVDA is programmed in Python. It utilizes accessibility APIs such as UI Automation, Microsoft Active Accessibility, IAccessible2 and Java Access Bridge, to access and present ...
Orca. Orca is a free and open-source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird ...
Overview. Time period. Summary. 1870–1931. Earliest ideas of optical character recognition (OCR) are conceived. Fournier d'Albe's Optophone and Tauschek's Reading Machine are developed as devices to help the blind read. [1] 1931–1954. First OCR tools are invented and applied in industry, able to interpret Morse code and read text out loud.