VISUALLY IMPAIRED GET A BOOST

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The Tobago Library Services has made good on its commitment to fostering inclusion for visually impaired individuals by establishing the Visually Impaired Persons  Services  at  the Scarborough Library . It's accessible to registered members of the public who have a visual impairment, print disability or dyslexia.  More in this Elizabeth Williams report.

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00:00The visually impaired person's services are located on the ground floor of the Scarborough

00:05Library.

00:06It is equipped with specialised machinery and software such as non-visual desktop access,

00:14software enabling internet access, email and other social media, magnifiers for users with

00:21low vision, digital talking book players, braille embosser that translates text to braille

00:29and other prints.

00:30The services are there, the facilities here, all leads to you being more and more independent.

00:39Participants have access to over 770,000 items, both fiction and non-fiction titles from ABC

00:47Global Book Services.

00:49Participant Claudia Robinson-Reed praised the initiative as a new dawn for the visually

00:55impaired.

00:56I am really amazed at the things that a person who is visually impaired and who is blind

01:04can do coming to this class.

01:06I learned how to use my phone.

01:08I recommend that people use an iPhone, but that is where the AI kicks in.

01:15You can search your cupboard because there's something called Be My Eyes and Vision that

01:19helps you find your clothing.

01:23Another app that was downloaded on my phone that is Audio Vista tells you about your surroundings.

01:30Classes are also held in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association

01:35which educates members in braille and digital literacy.

01:40Most people believe that life stops after blindness, but they come here and they get

01:46to learn to use their computer, they get to learn to use their phone and other forms

01:52of technology and then they realize, wait, I don't have to stop living.

01:57I could keep doing stuff.

01:59I could keep communicating with the rest of the world.

02:02And that changes their whole perspective on blindness and on life in general.

02:08Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.

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