Word: atl
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Other technologies, namely voice recognition, are rapidly improving. For example, ATL uses a Window-based package from Dragon Systems called DragonDictate. (A Mac equivalent called Power Secretary, uses the same voice-recognition engine...
...benefits are indisputable. Voloudakis cited one example of a homeless dyslexic man who was introduced to computers and ATL technology. Now he is a writer pursuing an English literature degree at the Extension School...
This technology and the issue of accessibility have had many other interesting side-effects as well. For example, talking computers have decreased the necessity for blind people to learn Braille. Voloudakis stated that the Braille printer at the ATL was last used two years ago and has not been used since, simply because most students take advantage of the available technology...
...fact, the ATL has been negotiating with book publishers to give it textbooks in electronic form to save the time and labor required to scan and convert textbooks itself. But publishers have balked at the idea, primarily because they fear people will widely distribute these books electronically...
...graphical interface is pretty much useless for the blind. How does a computer tell a blind person to move the mouse pointer over an icon and double-click? One way the ATL has dealt with this problem has been to suggest that students use older programs with textual rather than graphical interfaces...