Manuel Cortez are blind since age 14. Today-and adult-looking support those who are also on the condition of non-seer, creating software that could assist you in your day to day on the Internet. Specifically, Cortez, created two programs for people with visual disabilities could read and write on a computer.
The first is Typing Intellectual Assisted Natural (DANI) and helps readers improve their agility in typewriting , word by word. The application is made for Windows and is based on what ‘you type’ on a keyboard. As you press a key, a voice indicating what will play.
And the second is TWBlue. This helps speed reading the tweets in the social tool. It also allows you to be a wizard when writing a message, allowing write more characters and corrects spelling.
Manuel Cortez, creator of TWBlue.
TWBlue has 16 languages thanks to the contribution other users as it is based on free software and now has a base of 10,000 people using it. According to Manuel has every 3 weeks is updated and receive donations to keep running.
The next steps of this application for reading Twitter, is to integrate people with other disabilities. Specifically the auditory and motor. But unfortunately, as the creator, his project would be leaving in December for various reasons, including economic. According to him, two years since the project never received many donations.
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