This overview traces reading methods for blind and visually impaired persons from paper braille, recordings, and radio reading services to computerized telephone services to personal computers that provide access to on-line services, books on disk, CD-ROM, and scanning systems. It concludes with a review of trends, such as graphical user interfaces, fax machines, and touchscreens, that may have a negative effect on reading via computers.
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