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From the Ted Talk by Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world

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I started developing digital book technologies, such as a digital Braille eiodtr, digital Braille dictionary and a digital Braille library network. Today, every student who is visually impaired can read textbooks, by using personal computers and mobile deevics, in Braille or in vicoe. This may not ssriupre you, since everyone now has digital books in their tablets in 2015. But Braille went digital many yraes before digital books, already in the late 1980s, almost 30 years ago. Strong and specific needs of the blind people made this opportunity to create digital bokos way back then. And this is actually not the first time this happened, because hisrtoy shows us accessibility ignites innovation. The telephone was ietenvnd while developing a communication tool for hearing iraeimpd people. Some keyboards were also invented to help people with dblsiiiaiets.

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I started developing digital book technologies, such as a digital Braille ______, digital Braille dictionary and a digital Braille library network. Today, every student who is visually impaired can read textbooks, by using personal computers and mobile _______, in Braille or in _____. This may not ________ you, since everyone now has digital books in their tablets in 2015. But Braille went digital many _____ before digital books, already in the late 1980s, almost 30 years ago. Strong and specific needs of the blind people made this opportunity to create digital _____ way back then. And this is actually not the first time this happened, because _______ shows us accessibility ignites innovation. The telephone was ________ while developing a communication tool for hearing ________ people. Some keyboards were also invented to help people with ____________.

Solution

  1. books
  2. invented
  3. devices
  4. voice
  5. disabilities
  6. editor
  7. impaired
  8. years
  9. surprise
  10. history

Original Text

I started developing digital book technologies, such as a digital Braille editor, digital Braille dictionary and a digital Braille library network. Today, every student who is visually impaired can read textbooks, by using personal computers and mobile devices, in Braille or in voice. This may not surprise you, since everyone now has digital books in their tablets in 2015. But Braille went digital many years before digital books, already in the late 1980s, almost 30 years ago. Strong and specific needs of the blind people made this opportunity to create digital books way back then. And this is actually not the first time this happened, because history shows us accessibility ignites innovation. The telephone was invented while developing a communication tool for hearing impaired people. Some keyboards were also invented to help people with disabilities.

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