So how did the Renaissance begin? It's a movement that began in Florence in the late 13th century. Historians have pinpointed Florence as the source of the beginning of the ideas that led to the Renaissance, including the writings of poet Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, the scholar, poet and humanist.
National Federation of the Blind. Braille is the raised dot system used by the blind for reading and writing. Recent publicity about Braille has brought both information and confusion to the public. As a blind person myself and as president of the nation's largest organization primarily composed of blind persons (the 50,000-member National Federation of the Blind), I think I know something about the needs of blind persons.
A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) which is essential to people who are blind, as well as useful to people who are visually impaired, illiterate, or have a learning disability. Screen readers are software applications that attempt to convey what people with normal eyesight see on a display to their users via non-visual means, like text-to-speech,, sound icons, or a Braille device. They do this by applying a wide variety of techniques that include for example interacting with