First Search Engine for the Blind

Italy’s first search engine for the blind operates by transferring a block of text from the computer screen onto a Braille code graphic screen. The result is a page with pictures, written in simple HTML to allow a fast and easy access to the Web, even to those who have a simple operating system.

This extraordinary system, which has been tested with the aid of Mr. Claudio Caranna, a Blind psychics graduate, gives blind people the opportunity to use the Internet. Professor Giuseppe Micali is the author of the system and the creator of the Braille code graphic screen. He is an executive of the Polyclinic of Messina -Italy and the webmaster of ASIS news, an online newspaper published by the Italian School Press Association (School personnel Agency accredited by Ministry of Education, The Universities and research Bodies). Although it all sounds good, BrailleNet has not reached a hundred sites in its database and although the interface is in English the results are in Italian.
 
Source: OcuSource