Question

describe assistive technology adaptations to promote access to information that’s presented orally and in print.

my major is rehabilitation services, class is assistive technology, & the book is assistive technolor for people with disabilities. please give in detail how to promote access to information presented orally and in print

Answer 1

assiative technology that is used for people with disability in order lead a life smoother. the in formation that is printed in the orally cannot by acceessed by people with hearing impairment

assistive listening devices such as Frequency Modulation , infra red, loop assistive listening devices. this technology help the people focus on speaker and avoids extra sound which is created by environment. the device uses microphone to capture voice and sent to wirelessly Frequent Modulation transmission, infra red transmission, lnduction loop transmission . the listener use either Frequency modulation , infrared transmission, or induction loop transmission to air into signal and listen at his preferred volume.

amplified telephone equipment

it has various option to adjust frequency and tone of voice adjust according to his hearing impairment. phone can be adapted to 20-40 db for mild hearing loss. in the same way, people ith severe hearing impairment can adjust their phone 71 to 90 db

there are some assistive tecchnology which helps people with visual impairment. this devices can be adapted acccording to their uses.

they are: screen reader, screen magnifier, braille embossers,refreshable braille dispaly, digital magnifier

BRAILLE EMBOSSERS:

braille embossers has raised dots formed into units are called braille cells. a single braille cell has 6 dots ith two parellel rows of three dots.and it has other dots hich includes numbers, punctuation, letters and other words. visulaly impairment people can access this information by using their fingers. other device is that braille embossdor where embossdor can prints the raised dots of braille in to page. it can be read by either touch and sight.

screen readers:

this helps visually impaired people. by the help some softare, the information was conveyed in to text to speech or braille system along with magnified information in order to help low vision. some software like goog talk back, apple voice over has some benefits like magnifies screen controlling the key board an also providing some information about information which is on thescreen. it has 30 language to convert the information into person original language. it helps the person to get information by reading aloud regarding the article, journal, web pages. screen readers depends on the text to speech. so printed information are created into documents. this documents are uploaded into computer. the uplaoded information are converted and listen to them by using optical character recognition technology along the text to speech software. optical recognition technology help person by uploading the images, printed , typed , written information  it is a special softare widely used every here. it is a electronic conversion of  printed form of material into machine encoded text. this conversion converted into text to speech and able to hear the information.

desktop video magnifier

it has camera anddisplay screen to magnify the printed or written in formation. this syetem enlarges printed information for low vision. it has several options like enlarging, highlighting, contrasting, and other options. screen magnifying software: printed information are uplaoded into dexttop. the screen magnifier enlarge the text and allow the person to read it.