Step 4: Choose the Accommodation

Reading Printed Materials: No Vision

Accommodations include:

Auditory versions of printed document
Braille formatted document
Reformatted document that displays as accessible Web page
The Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, which takes a picture of a text document and reads the contents of the printed document in clear synthetic speech
Optical character recognition (OCR), which scans printed text and provides a synthetic speech output or text-based computer file
Tactile graphic document
Qualified reader, which may be used to "be the eyes" for a person with a vision impairment
- Note: There currently is not a standard for providing or hiring readers, and no certification requirements exist.