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Feb

Web Guru To the Blind

Posted by Walt Mayo, OD
Walt Mayo, OD
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Source: tech.slashdot .org

Chieko Asakawa went blind at age 14, learned to program mainframe computers by sense of touch, and has spent her 27 years at IBM-Tokyo bringing personal computing and the Internet to the blind. From the article: 'By 1997 she had developed a plug-in that worked with the Netscape browser, mapping Web navigation commands to the computer keyboard's number pad and using text-to-speech technology to read out content.

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