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            <h1>Disability Aids in Computing</h1>
            <p>With computers being of ever increasing importance in our modern world,
                it's important that it is accessible to people with disabilities that would normally impair them from using computers
                 - especially as things such as banking and jobs move fully online.</p>
            <h2>Screen Readers</h2>
            <p>One of the most common disability aid tools in computing are screen readers, as they allow blind people to interact with computers without being dependant on a seeing person to assist them.</p>
            <p>Screen reader software today often comes embedded into the operating system, eg, <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/complete-guide-to-narrator-e4397a0d-ef4f-b386-d8ae-c172f109bdb1">Windows Narrator</a>, or <a href="https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6283677?hl=en">Android's TalkBack</a>.
                It converts sections of text on the screen into speech, and is often coupled with speech to text software so that the user can also talk back to the device - which is especially useful on devices like mobile phones, which do not provide tactile feedback when typing unlike a traditional keyboard.</p>
            <h3>Braille Displays</h3>
            <p>As screen readers read chunks of the screen at a time, they can often be paired with braille displays.
                Braille displays are most often a USB accessory that works with screen reader software to output text on the screen in a way blind people can digest,
                however instead of using speech synthesis, it uses a board with pins that can move up and down to form braille characters.</p>
            <p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plage-braille.jpg#/media/File:Plage-braille.jpg"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Plage-braille.jpg" alt="File:Plage-braille.jpg" height="428" width="640"></a><br>By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sebastien.delorme" title="User:Sebastien.delorme">Sebastien.delorme</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9474490">Link</a></p>
            <h2>Dictation Software</h2>
            <p><img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/5592260/pexels-photo-5592260.jpeg" alt="A man speaking into his phone" height="320"></p> <!-- width = auto is invalid syntax-->
            <p>Also mentioned on earlier, dictation software is used to input text into computers when you are unable to use a keyboard.
                Couple with screen readers they are very useful tool for blind people as they enable typing on mobile phones or other touchscreen devices which lack a physical keyboard.
                They are however also very useful for people with mobility or fine motor control issues, who would be unable to or struggle to use a keyboard. Word dictation software today is very reliable, with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-dictation-software/">New York Times saying that the dictation feature in Microsoft Word has 99% accuracy as of August 28th, 2025.</a></p>

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          <h3>Authored by:</h3>
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