Developed by departments under Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS), Chinese Braille Computer System has successfully gone
through the verification, by which the blind can fully enjoy the
convenience of computer.
Such system adopts a special kind of keyboard technology, by
which the blind can get phonetic explanation and relating words
while putting in Braille publication, Chinese or ASCII. This system
provides several automatic transforms translating Chinese to
several Braille codings and makes the blind "read" Chinese articles
directly.
This system realizes the goal of acquiring and reading the
information on the full screen. It can also automatically
distinguish simplified Chinese characters from the traditional
Chinese characters, and Chinese from English, making the user able
to "read" all kinds of information on the screen.
Meanwhile, the system can put out the information acquired from
the screen into special equipment and provide the user with the
intellectualized phonetic navigation. The blind can use the
computer freely and independently like a normal person under the
direct "guide" from the computer.
(People's Daily August 4, 2003)