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Old 03-22-2005, 01:32 PM  
AaronM
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Originally Posted by Jake
Like I said, for all the people who can't seem to grasp this issue. I fully understand that visually impaired people are able to use computers too. However, if a person is blind they will not be able to read the text "Visually impaired? Click here". That being said, now answer this question: Why is it displayed on the screen?

Several years ago I owned a company that developed a site for a local blind organization. I believe they had a software package called JAWS that read the text as audio. It was also designed to specifically locate links and certain key words.
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