friends

thanks to my friend Mohammed khawaja for this post about me on his blog:

Blind with vision

I am so happy, yes I am. This is the first time I feel so happy on a birthday, specially that I never celebrated any but this year.

actually, in the few times I do attend birthday parties, I, must admit, often do it out of trying to be sociable.

Today is my best friend’s birthday, and it certainly feels different, very different this time. I really do feel so happy and content. have you ever imagined
yourself wanting to collect all the happiness known to humans and sort of pour them into your friend’s heart? this is exactly how I feel!

I am often asked how can I use the computer although i am blind. Often times people will even doubt that it’s doable. The short version of the answer is that I use the computer through a screen reader. which is basically a software that tells the blind user what is displayed on the screen at any given event, through either speech or braille. That event may be a dialogue box, an edit window, a hyber text document, a VB project, etc. But what is it really like to use this screen Reader?