Smart Device Assists Internet Navigation by Visually-Impaired

A domestic knowledge-based company has developed a smart device to help visually-impaired people surf the internet in the most optimal way.
The screen reader makes it possible to read the text of web pages, according to the manager of Poli Be Sooye Farda (A bridge to tomorrow in Persian) Company.
“The company joined the list of innovative firms with Follow Service [an internet assistant for the blind]. The product automatically identifies the main text of a web page and removes other unnecessary parts such as advertisements,” Alireza Qasemi was also quoted as saying by the news portal of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.
“With the help of speech recognition, text-to-speech services and the up-down buttons used in smartphones, visually-impaired people can visit different pages of a site and convert the main text of a page into speech,” he added.