- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:53:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
X-URL: <http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1058134211470&call_pageid=968350072197> [...] One of Spectrum's latest projects, called Web4All, provides special Internet access to the physically disabled. If you are visually impaired, you might want a synthesized voice to read the words on the screen, for example. Users can save this kind of computing preference with the aid of a technician on a Smart Card. Then, the next time they come to the computing centre, all they have to do is put their smart card in the machine and their preferences are automatically loaded. "We have 1,000 smart cards, of which 200 have already been distributed," she said. People who have trouble reading Carman calls them the "literacy challenged can use similar software that will highlight the words on screen as they are read aloud. "What we are looking at right at the moment are which communities are most in need: the literacy challenged, the elderly, the aboriginal and the poor. They can be in almost any community in Canada," said Carman.
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