Equipment
Technology used at the Taha Hussein Library
Hardware:
- PCs
- Scanners
- Braille Printers
- Braille displays
- Braille (keyboard)
- magnifiers for low vision readers
- cassette recorders
Braille (keyboard)
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magnifiers for the low vision group
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Software
The technology of the software available at
TH Library allows the conversion of text to audio. In other words,
each character that appears on the screen co-ordinates with a vocal
response from the software.
- English screen reader for the totally blind
groups It enables them to listen to text that appears on the screen
- Arabic screen reader for the totally blind
- Paper reader, software that enables users
to read Arabic books
- The Arabic net reader software used to
surf the net in Arabic
- An English "scan and read" software,
to read English books. Suitable for the totally blind.
- A scan and read software used for
people with low vision, provides speech output plus screen magnifying.
- Musical software, a package of three softwares
that are used to scan, edit and print music notation in Braille.
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