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0 pointsshakna6y ago0 comments

From another angle here, I occasionally have problems that make me use a screenreader.

When the nerves that make my eyes work stop behaving correctly, it's also normal for the nerves in my throat to flip out so that speaking feels like breathing razor blades.

Making a call isn't an option, but using a web browser still is, if they haven't gone out of their way to break all the ways a web browser is supposed to behave.

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disabled6y ago

Same. I have severe convergence insufficiency (that is highly variable and cannot be corrected, from a practical standpoint) due to a rare immune-mediated neurological disease.

I taught myself braille and I have a couple of refreshable braille displays, which I use, depending on how well my eyes are working.

I can digitize printed material well, including STEM material, using a program called InftyReader (Windows).

It is no fun, but you have to do what you have to do.

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