Ten years of computer use by visually impaired people in Hungary

✍ Scribed by Terez Vaspori; Andras Arato

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Weight: 320 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0745-7138
• DOI: 10.1016/s0745-7138(05)80030-2

✦ Synopsis

This survey is written by the developers of BraiLab, a talking computer family. The authors present an overview of computers and aids based on micro-processing systems used by blind people in Hungary in the past decade. The paper discusses various devices in use in Hungary in the past decade, and the impact of these devices on the education, work and everyday life of visually impaired individuals. Finally, the authors identify some of the tasks looming on the horizon.