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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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And I would have had to do a lot more work to find specialists who would install it on my computer for me. Dave Buresh/The Denver Post/Getty Images So, with the Kurzweil Reading Machine, suddenly the entire world of print really starts to open up. In the 1990s, screen readers were around. They weren’t as powerful as they are now.