Blind to get help reading Word docs
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft is joining with an international organization for the vision-impaired to produce a plug-in for Word that's meant to transform text into audio for people with severe reading difficulties.
The company announced Tuesday a collaboration with the Digital Accessible Information SYstem Consortium to create a standards-based plug-in for Word XP, Word 2003, and Word 2007 that will be available early next year.
"The timeline aims to have this ready by mid-March next year," Reed Shaffner, worldwide product manager for Microsoft Word, told InternetNews.com.