A 19-year old computer geek has developed an innovative tool that can aid people with poor eyesight in handling computers.
Stephen Antony, who has developed the tool, has said he is receiving a huge response from people who are thankful because they have got over a major problem of using the net.
The tool can change colours and font sizes to suit those visually impaired, and there is also a virtual newsreader ‘Charlie’ that can read out the news for the blind.
The visually challenged can choose blue, red, green, yellow or white colour. The size of the font can also be increased or decreased at the strike of a key.
Antony has said that before developing the tool he spoke to a few ophthalmologists, as he was not sure of the colours.
The new tool can be freely downloaded from the website www.webspidy.com that Antony launched three months ago. According to Antony, the site logs more than 100,000 hits a day.
Antony, who is doing his second year degree course in chemistry, has written 16 software systems and also updated the M Tech syllabus of the Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam.
"I am working on several things at the moment and my aim is just to prove to the world that we in Kerala too can do things," Antony, who has thrice won the Superior Coder of the Planet Award from the US, has been quoted as saying.
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