Special Needs Services

King Abdul Aziz University pay particular attention to users with special needs, The library of Providing them with all the means that help them to benefit from all the different library sources, Such as audio and optical devices, and other. Also private a special parking for their cars.

Special books :

The library contains a set of books for beneficiaries with special needs.

( Jaws ) system , version 12:

About the program

It's an integrated program of speaking in Arabic and English , it's allows blind using computer professionally and skillfully , it converts everything that appears on screen to a voice that user can hear, including the contents of the desktop, icons , the menus commands , dialog boxes and windows of open application . The user can review the Internet and download sites and browse it by using the Browser ( Microsoft outlook ) . This system is also repeating the name of any key on the keyboard when pressed.

Documents reader

It's the program of reading papers and documents by merging two techniques that are optical identify of letters (O C R ) and reading spoken text ( TTS ) . Where the first technical recognize the content of the papers that are scanned and convert it into a text, then the second technical holds reading it correctly and clearly. This in addition to the other advantages and characteristics of the program, It will be explained through the User's Guide.

Educational system

It's a training program to recognize the keyboard and training of using it and conducting various write operations.

Braille adapter

This program converts text files to the symbols used in Braille way for the blinds for both types ( grade 1 and grade 2 ) , and the possibility to save the new files on the hard drive or print it on Braille printer parallel or consecutive . It can also convert files which are contains symbols of Braille method from ( grade 1 ) type to normal text files ( TXT ) , and (Rock ) contributes the largest share in the development of vision system technologies , where the OCR process depends on Arabic texts on Rock program " Automated reader " advanced version of the seventh emission , which includes the( Xerox Text Bridge ) program of recognizing English text . Rock also has developed a technique of reading spoken text that is used in the program to read Arabic texts clear and correct reading , even without the availability of formation and punctuation marks that are necessary for the correct reading .


Last Update
4/18/2016 2:01:36 PM