Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 40 public, private and voluntary organisations
Screenreader.net - a gateway to independence for the blind and partially sighted
This website supplies a free tool to enable the blind and partially sighted without financial resources to make a computer talk for them, allowing the user to hear exactly what's on the screen, to access the Internet, write emails and letters or search for a job. This invaluable tool is called 'Thunder' Screenreader.net and was founded by blind people (Roger and Margaret Wilson-Hinds) for blind users.
The technology is not new but, because it tends to be expensive (£500 - £1,100), most blind and visually impaired people still tend to find themselves barred from productive use of computers - screenreader.net is unique in providing this technology for free.
More than 100,000 blind people have downloaded Thunder in the last 18 months and over 20,000 have become registered users.
Objective: to disseminate the technology as far as possible - 'make this universally available to all that need it' - the gateway to reading, writing, learning and independence for blind people.
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