... differing levels of sight such a person can have, and what difficulties such a person could encounter when studying in further or higher education. The focus then shifts to technology and what ways information technology (hardware and software) can aid the life of a visually impaired student. Some examples of enabling software are presented and discussed; what the software can achieve and also its limitations. Finally the essay concludes with a look into the future and what it may hold for the visually impaired. The term visually impaired encompasses a wide variety of sight problems. Many people on hearing the term think blandly of blindness, but this is not always the case. Furthermore the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), a UK body, estimates that there are approximately 2 million people in the UK with such sight problems.1 The main categories are as follows (and are relatively self explanatory); blind ...

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