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December 17, 2005

Software opens up new world for blind

It's reading articles like these that makes it very easy to get out of bed in the morning.

Software opens up new world for blind

"They say that books are the window to the world, but there is hardly a publisher here that produces popular books in both print and audio forms," Mitra Netra Foundation deputy executive director Irwan Dwi Kustanto, said.

Himself suffering from reduced vision -- only 2 percent of his eyesight remains -- Irwan remembers the frustrations of having to always ask another person to read to him.

Wow. I'm very excited to help bring more audio content to Irwan, Riqo and other visually impaired people and I'm very excited to make our site more accessible to people who can't actually view the site. If you know anything about the latter please drop me an e-mail at jon@learnoutloud.com as this is an area where we could use some help.

While I'm on the subject I wanted to give a quick mention to a couple of podcasts being put out by visually impaired people: Blindspot Podcast and Blind Access Journal. I had the privilege of seeing Darrell Shandrow of the Blind Access Journal podcast live as part of TWiT 30 at this year's Portable Media Expo. It was pretty remarkable.

Which reminds of another remarkable story about a physically impaired person. But I'm going to save that for another time...

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