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Current professional computers are most commonly equipped with Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) instead of text oriented user interfaces. Today, almost every computer is equipped with a GUI. This poses great problems to blind computer users who were at first given more job opportunities with the advent of character based computers but are now threatened to lose their newly gained employment.
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Poll, L.H., Eggen, B.H. (1996). Non-visual Interaction with GUI Objects. In: Sasse, M.A., Cunningham, R.J., Winder, R.L. (eds) People and Computers XI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3588-3_11
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