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Step 4: Choose the Accommodation
Reading Printed Materials: No Vision
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Accommodations include:


Auditory versions of printed document


Braille formatted document


Reformatted document that displays as accessible Web page


The Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, which takes a picture of a text document and reads the contents of the printed document in clear synthetic speech


Optical character recognition (OCR), which scans printed text and provides a synthetic speech output or text-based computer file


Tactile graphic document


Qualified reader, which may be used to "be the eyes" for a person with a vision impairment Note: There currently is not a standard for providing or hiring readers, and no certification requirements exist.