# How do blind people use the internet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-blind-people-use-the-internet/610926>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 28, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-blind-people-use-the-internet/610926 "2012-01-28T00:00:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-blind-people-use-the-internet/610926/21 "2013-03-16T14:34:33Z")

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The thing to keep in mind about text to speech devices is that blind people with highly “trained ears” listen to speech at a far more rapid pace than do you and I, and can navigate a webpage with ease so long as it is arranged in “list” format and not “windows” format.

For the partially sighted, there are multiple text-enlarging programs, such as Zoomtext, that enable people with reduced vision to use the internet. I’ve heard there are some stability issues with the program for some of my patients.

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**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-blind-people-use-the-internet/610926/22 "2013-03-16T22:13:21Z")

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I have low vision issues, but for now I just crank up the size of the font and zoom, what I will do 5 years from now I don’t know

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