Knowledge-Based Company in Iran Makes Reading Easier for Blind People
"’Follow’ service (internet assistant for the blind) is a product and among the measures by which the company could join the list of creative companies," said Alireza Qassemi, the executive director of the knowledge-based ‘Poli Be Sooye Farda’ company.
He added that the product automatically detects and identifies the main text of a webpage and removes its unnecessary texts, including the advertisement.
“The product makes it possible to switch between different pages of a website and access the main text of that page with the help of speech recognition and text to speech services and the up and down buttons of smart phones,” Qassemi said.
The most common way for users who are blind to surf the web is with a browser and screen reader (also known as text-to-speech software).
Understanding how text-to-speech software helps the visually impaired “read” websites is essential for anyone designing for such users.
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