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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Kurzweil Reading Machine(also: KRM, Kurzweil Reader)
A pioneering reading device for blind people invented by Ray Kurzweil in 1976, combining optical character recognition (OCR) with text-to-speech synthesis to read printed text aloud. The original device was as large as a stove and produced mechanical-sounding speech, but it…

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