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I use a piece of software called the screen reader. The make I use is called 'Jaws' - quite cheerfully titled - it uses an electronic synthesised voice that's very much like having someone sit next to you at the computer and read aloud to you the content of the screen.

So where you see icons it will tell you the icon title, or if it's a word document it'll read you the content text. As far as I know they've been around for well over 10 years, but they hit a bit of a pause when the graphical user interface came into popularity.

Now again they're very strong pieces of software and they're quite freely available as a...I shouldn't say freely, should I, because they're anything but! Léonie chuckles.

There's probably 4 or 5 brands now that are widely available of screen readers across the world. If I didn't have access to this kind of technology I think the simple truth is I wouldn't be working.

I worked in computers before I lost my sight so it was a natural progression to go back to that and if I didn't have access to a computer in this way I simply don't know what I'd be doing.