Disability and computers BY CHRIS PEMBLE

Blindness  Being blind is very tough have you ever closed your eyes and tried to go around your room or your house. Its hard. Try and do that for basically all your life.  But for a long time now there’s a breed of dog that can help the blind go around the town even the house happily, not worrying if they are going to bump into a wall or get ran over, this type of dog is called a guide dog, the breed is mostly Labradors. Also the blind can use a walking stick specially made for the blind which they wave around on the floor and they can sense on the stick to see if there is anything in the way such as a curb, a wall, a person etc.

Blind & visually impaired  Blind & visually impaired people can download a software which reads everything out on the screen.  Also the blind can get a special keyboard with brail on it.  Also the visually impaired can get a special keyboard with bright colours on it

Websites for the blind & visually impaired  For the visually impaired you should make the words big bold and colourful so they are easy to spot and read, also for the blind and people who are on the verge of being blind you can get a special software which reads out everything on the website you are on, and if the website creator has done the website properly he/she should of made alternative texts for the pictures so if the person on the website can’t see or the picture is too pixelated the software can read the text about the picture out. Also if there's a video on the website the creator should put a narrator for the blind so they know what the video is about and what's happening in the video. Also the font so people who do still have a bit of sight left don’t do the font to small do it largish and also don’t do any fancy fonts just do normal like century gothic so its easy to read. Alternative text

Hardware for the blind These are some of the things that can help blind or visually impaired people coloured and 3D keyboards, speaking in to TV remote.

 Being blind isn’t the only disability that makes it hard to do stuff you can have a disability mentally or physically, this can sometimes stop you from doing the simplest of things, such as going on the computer or going into town or even getting up. disabilities

Hardware for disabled people These are some of the things disabled people can use e.g. wheel chair, chair lift, ball mouse for the computer, toggle stick for people with only one arm or hand.