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Friday, November 23, 2007

Visually Impaired Now Have Own Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! IncWith the launch of a new product called the Yahoo! Mail Classic, the company’s products have become more accessible to the users – even the visually impaired. Interestingly, the Yahoo! Mail Classic functions on all standard screen reader software and can be used by the common masses too.

It is a novel idea, where the screen reader software identifies the text for the user and then transforms it to sound and speech or even a Braille printout that helps even the blind to use the mail.

Usually the screen readers are used help the visually impaired in the educational efforts and this technology has now been successfully utilized by Yahoo! to enable them in sending and receiving e-mails.

For instance, when a person clicks on the mail icon, the software will send out speech or sounds like ‘enter your user id’, ‘now enter your password’ or ‘click on the following icon’ making it easy for the visually challenged to use the mailing system on the Internet.

Yahoo! R&D experts in Bangalore have made this possible in accordance with the company’s ideology to make its products easily accessible to one and all. The team of experts was led by Victor Tsaran, popularly known as accessibility guru! Now, with this breakthrough people across the board and will all disabilities can benefit from the Internet.

Source: Yahoo! FanClub Visually Impaired Now Have Own Yahoo! Mail

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