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Web-based program gives the blind Internet access (AP)

Lindsay Yazzolino, a Brown University student, demonstrates WebAnywhere, a new Web-based application developed by a computer science graduate student at the University of Washington that provides verbal feedback and enables blind people to use any Internet-connected computer, Friday, July 11, 2008, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Yazzolino, 19, from Issaquah, Wash., and who has a summer job at UW, has been totally blind since birth. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.