Provision+for+special+needs


 * Provision for special needs** [Inclusive software, Braille keyboards, accessibility]

IT is highly beneficial to the people who use it as it saves time and provides entertainment, so why shouldn't the impaired make use of it as well. Some of the physical talents that the impaired lack due to blindness and deafness could be made up for though expanding their IT skills. This is done thorough the provision of inclusive software and hardware.

[|Inclusive Technology©] - Voted ICT company of the year in 2012, it sells products that help the disabled make use of IT easy.


 * [|Blind soldier can see with "tongue"] **

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**For the visually impaired**

A printer that can print braille language || || Software used to convert text to Braille using a computer and Braille embosser. ||  || A television video camera combination used by people who are visually impaired to he print in books and newspapers. It can also be used to write letters, and checks, and do different types of crafts like needlepoint. || || A device used to produce Braille output the way computer monitors produce print output. They are especially useful for deaf blind people that cannot use speech output. || || Software used by people with poor eyesight to enlarge the text on the computer screen. ||  || Software used to convert Text on the computer screen into spoken words. Used by the totally blind and others that have trouble reading even magnified text. ||  ||
 * **Braille Embosser**
 * **Braille Translation Software**
 * **CCTV (Closed Circuit Television)**
 * **Refreshable Braille Display**
 * **Screen Magnification Software**
 * **Screen Reading Software or Text to Speech**

Inclusive software are the programs that allow the user to be able to use the computer with ease and it provides accessibility. It is a way of lessening the **digital divide** between those who have access to technology and those who have access to technology **but cannot use it**.

**Stephen Hawking** Struck by motor neuron disease (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s), the brilliant professor has lost most of his muscle control, and a necessary tracheotomy has removed his ability to speak on his own. If Hawking had been born just a few decades earlier, the world would have lost all access to his insightful mind. Instead, custom devices (and commercially available software) have given him the means to express his revolutionary theories in physics. Now, as Stephen Hawking’s newest miniseries on the Discovery Channel is revealing some of his most startling thoughts on the universe and the future, we will take a look at the technology that allows him to talk.

Walter Woltosz developed Hawking’s first software program that allowed him to spell by clicking a button with his hand. **The software, called Equalizer**, would be developed with Woltosz’s company Words Plus, and different versions arose, including **EZ Keys which Hawking currently uses**. With this software, Hawking was capable of writing at just four words a minute, but it **became his portal to the outside world,** and it is through this technology that he has written books, essays, and countless lectures.

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**Brain communication Device**

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 * Reliability || Machines can be unreliable of not manufactured correctly ||
 * Digital Divide || Some people in less developed countries don't have access to the software and may lack behind ||
 * Integrity || If the input information is incorrect then the output will also be incorrect ||