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Cairo, Egypt (Egypt Today): Institutions abroad have answered the needs of those who don’t want to learn Braille in various ways. In the UK, the Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) wanted to make images accessible to blind people: a screen reader cannot describe an image in detail.
So, with the New York-based company Touch Graphics, RNC has developed a system called Talking Tactile Technology, based on a laptop-sized, touch-sensitive device connected to a computer via USB. The device combines audio files and tactile diagrams — maps, the human body, an algebra diagram and ideally, anything that can be printed with a normal ink printer on special encapsulated paper.
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