Access to Assistive Devices
The study established that from a list of nineteen modern assistive devices respondents only had access to just a few.
These included computers, modern computer software, Braille machines Braille paper ,
talking books, audio material e.g compact discs, thermaphorm (equivalent of ordinary photocopier)Braille books , screen magnifiers, screen readers,
speech synthesizes, refreshable Braille displays ,
Braille embossers, large print word processors,
talking word processors, optical character recognition
portable note taking devices and hard copy Braille .