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Montana student pushes for blind-friendly Web

Jim Reed’s eyesight is rapidly vanishing, but the 27-year-old graduate student doesn’t plan on letting that keep him from using the Internet to follow news, download music or manage his bank account.

To do so, he’s learning how to use what’s known as a screen reader, a software product that reads text on a Web site aloud and identifies areas where search terms or other information can be entered.

“Anything you can do with a mouse I can or will be able to do using a screen reader,” Reed said.

KAHRIN DEINES Of The Gazette Staff

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