ACCESS: So how does an individual with low vision or blindness read?  What if there’s no quick way to get it into braille or large print?  Getting to figure out print is also known as ACCESS to print. For Lunar New Year 2019 I wanted to show two ways to access print. For individuals with low vision, the user can refer to a CCTV or Closed-Circuit Tele-Vision.  I used this model to magnify a book with very small font.  Font size can make it difficult to read due to crowded letters.  Here is an example of crowded letters with a confusing background.  This confusion is called Visual Clutter.

The  CCTV functions can help the user switch colors so that the background fades away and the text stands out for greater legibility.

The user can also access print using OCR technology.  OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition.  You can change the settings on your OCR scanner, so that the voice reading it out loud to you is slower, faster, female, or male.

I used the model that does not require computer knowledge to read a book about Karate; just place it on the reader platform. 

It is true that there are apps on mobile devices that can do similar magnification or scanning to read out loud, but it is also true that having a device that is not dependent on the internet, a device that works, can make a person feel more independent.  That is what Access is meant to do.