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Reading Printed Materials: No Vision

Accommodations include:

Small Triangle Blue Bullet Auditory versions of printed document

Small Triangle Blue Bullet Braille formatted document

Small Triangle Blue Bullet Reformatted document that displays as accessible Web page

Small Triangle Blue Bullet 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

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

Small Triangle Blue Bullet Tactile graphic document

Small Triangle Blue Bullet 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.


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Accommodations are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If you need additional information or would like to discuss the information presented here, contact JAN directly.

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