report for ICT systems used in technology for special needs people

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Report for special needs groups

In this report where I am writing about special needs, it will be different to the other reports for community activities, personal communications, business and working styles. Instead of talking about the advantages, disadvantages, how it meets users needs and consequences of no ICT access, as a whole on all things where ICT is used under each group, I will specify a piece of technology that uses ICT for each of the groups - visually impaired, hearing impaired etc…. and then talk about the benefits, disadvantages, how it meets the users needs and consequences if there is no ICT access. I will be doing this as it is harder to explain and talk about benefits, disadvantages etc…. as a whole under each group as there are many different kinds of things that are used involving ICT under all 4 groups in which they are good and bad in their own different ways and so it will be too hard to explain that, it will be much easier to specify a technology that uses ICT and then talk about it.

There are more and more different technologies being made involving ICT which allow people with special needs to be able to do things that are very hard for them to do.

Visually Impaired People:

OCR (Optical Character Recognition):

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Benefits:

It can successfully scan texts from books and magazines and change it into information the computer can recognize in to a bigger size as well needed for the visually impaired, it is very reliable, OCR has a superior recognition rate, and takes less than a minute to scan the page.

Disadvantages:

OCR Can’t scan and interpret hand written text, it is extremely expensive, scanning is not always successful as some times the computer can’t recognize the data, users need to have some basic scanning and reading knowledge, it has multiple sequential steps which can be problematic for ...

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