Output devices for special needs individuals finding themselves in the need of using a computer but due to

their special needs need special equipment to do so

By Emperor Patrick James Russell Kenworthy OBE MBE KBE IOS LSD HIV MD PHD ADHD OCD WTF OMG LOL HMV

First of all we will commence with the output device that goes with the name of a Screen Reader

• A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen (or, more accurately, sent to standard output, whether a video monitor is present or not). This interpretation is then re-presented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a Braille output device. Screen readers are a form of assistive technology (AT) potentially useful to people who are blind, visually impaired, illiterate or learning disabled, often in combination with other AT, such as screen magnifiers.

Now the second output device we will discuss goes by the name of an Actuator

• The part of a hard disk to which the read/write arms attaches. All the heads are attached to a single head actuator, also called an actuator arm, that moves the heads around the platters. Older hard drives used a stepper motor actuator, which moved the heads based on a motor reacting to stepper pulses. Modern hard drives use a voice coil actuator, which controls the movement of a coil toward or away from a permanent magnet based on the amount of current flowing through it. This guidance system is called a servo

And finally we find ourselves discussing the third and final disabeled output device called a Voice synthesiser

• Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech.

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