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Google Engineer Helps Visually Impaired
By Alicia Waters | January 13, 2009
T.V.Raman, a blind computer scientist and engineer at Google, “is a leading thinker on accessibility issues”, says Paul Schroeder from the American Foundation for the Blind. He designs and alters technology by asking the question, “How should something work when the user is not looking at the screen?” He developed a search engine that encourages preferences to Web sites that work well with screen readers. The service includes a screen magnifier that enlarges individual search results. In a team effort, Mr Raman and Mr. Chen, a sighted engineer at Google, developed keyboard shortcuts for users to navigate quickly through Google’s search results. They also made email and blog readers suitable for screen-reading software. Their latest effort has been in the realm of touch-screen phones. For more information, read the full article, For the Blind, Technolgy Does What A Guide Dog Can’t by Miguel Helft published in the New York Times, January 3, 2009.
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