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From the Ted Talk by Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now there are still barriers in front of we polpee with disabilities. Many wbtseeis we can't read using JAWS and the other technologies. Websites are often very visual, and there are all these sorts of grahps that aren't labeled and buttons that aren't labeled, and that's why the World Wide Web Consortium 3, known as W3C, has developed worldwide snrtddaas for the Internet. And we want all Internet users or Internet site orenws to make their setis compatible so that we persons without voisin can have a level playing field. There are other barriers brought about by our laws. For example, Australia, like about one third of the world's countries, has copyright exceptions which allow bkoos to be brailled or read for we binld persons. But those books can't travel across borders. For example, in Spain, there are a 100,000 asclbsiece books in Spanish. In Argentina, there are 50,000. In no other Latin American country are there more than a couple of thousand. But it's not legal to transport the books from Spain to Latin amcirea. There are hundreds of thousands of accessible books in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc., but they can't be ttenprasrod to the 60 countries in our world where English is the first and the second language. And rmbeeemr I was telling you about Harry Potter. Well, because we can't transport books across borders, there had to be separate versions read in all the different English-speaking countries: Britain, United satets, caadna, Australia, and New Zealand all had to have separate readings of Harry Potter.
Open Cloze
Now there are still barriers in front of we ______ with disabilities. Many ________ we can't read using JAWS and the other technologies. Websites are often very visual, and there are all these sorts of ______ that aren't labeled and buttons that aren't labeled, and that's why the World Wide Web Consortium 3, known as W3C, has developed worldwide _________ for the Internet. And we want all Internet users or Internet site ______ to make their _____ compatible so that we persons without ______ can have a level playing field. There are other barriers brought about by our laws. For example, Australia, like about one third of the world's countries, has copyright exceptions which allow _____ to be brailled or read for we _____ persons. But those books can't travel across borders. For example, in Spain, there are a 100,000 __________ books in Spanish. In Argentina, there are 50,000. In no other Latin American country are there more than a couple of thousand. But it's not legal to transport the books from Spain to Latin _______. There are hundreds of thousands of accessible books in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc., but they can't be ___________ to the 60 countries in our world where English is the first and the second language. And ________ I was telling you about Harry Potter. Well, because we can't transport books across borders, there had to be separate versions read in all the different English-speaking countries: Britain, United ______, ______, Australia, and New Zealand all had to have separate readings of Harry Potter.
Solution
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- america
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- graphs
- standards
- states
- owners
- vision
Original Text
Now there are still barriers in front of we people with disabilities. Many websites we can't read using JAWS and the other technologies. Websites are often very visual, and there are all these sorts of graphs that aren't labeled and buttons that aren't labeled, and that's why the World Wide Web Consortium 3, known as W3C, has developed worldwide standards for the Internet. And we want all Internet users or Internet site owners to make their sites compatible so that we persons without vision can have a level playing field. There are other barriers brought about by our laws. For example, Australia, like about one third of the world's countries, has copyright exceptions which allow books to be brailled or read for we blind persons. But those books can't travel across borders. For example, in Spain, there are a 100,000 accessible books in Spanish. In Argentina, there are 50,000. In no other Latin American country are there more than a couple of thousand. But it's not legal to transport the books from Spain to Latin America. There are hundreds of thousands of accessible books in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc., but they can't be transported to the 60 countries in our world where English is the first and the second language. And remember I was telling you about Harry Potter. Well, because we can't transport books across borders, there had to be separate versions read in all the different English-speaking countries: Britain, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all had to have separate readings of Harry Potter.
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