Google Funds New Research To Help Blind Web Surfers
March 30, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) New research by University of Manchester scientists that could help blind people find their way around the World Wide Web has been given a boost with a £50,000 grant from Google.
Drs. Andy Brown, Caroline Jay and Simon Harper who are based at the University’s School of Computer Science, have already developed a prototype screen reader that has been successfully tested on blind web surfers in an independent evaluation.
The team used specialist eye tracking techniques to find out how sighted people interact with complex Web pages so they could translate the pages into audio. Now they are working with Google to make their technology, which is not yet suitable for general use, freely available to people with visual impairments.
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