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UNIT 9
1. Assistive Technology
A.)
a. Adapted Keyboard: textphone - Which is where deaf computer users can overcome many
communication difficulties with the help of visual alerts.
b. Screen Reader: which is a program that reads text and menus from word processors, database,
and the web.
c. Pneumatic switch: that allows someone with quadriplegia to control the PC by puffing and
sipping air through a pneumatic tube. People with quadriplegia can also use sip and puff joystick.
d. One Screen Keyboard: Are software images of a keyboard that appear on the screen and may be
activated with track ball, touch screen, screen–pointing device, or eye movement. In a eyegaze
system.
1. Braile, screen magnifiers, speech synthesis, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
2. Screen magnifiers: This type of software can enlarge text and images appearing on the screen
by up to 16 times.
3. Speech synthesis: System is used to read aloud the work on the computers. It has a speech
synthesizer, which produces the audio output, and a screen reader.
4. Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Software to read printed material and send the text to the
computers.
5. Eyegaze system: the keys on the virtual keyboard are activated by the users eyes when they
pause on a key for two or three seconds.
6. Pneumatic switch: that allows someone with quadriplegia to control the PC by puffing and
sipping air through a pneumatic tube.
7. Voice recognition: which allows the computer to internet human speech, transforming the
words into digitized text or instructions.
B.)
1. Textphone
2. Switches
3. Embosser
4. Alerts
5. Reader
6. Magnifier
7. Braille
2. Rehabilitation engineer (‘s genitive): the engineer who belongs to the rehabilitation.
B.)
1. Secondary
2. Storage
3. Hold
4. Capacity
5. Archiving
1. The lomega eGo portable hard drive has a capacity of 500GB, 320GB (Gigabyte), 1BT .
2. Has data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 models.
3. Magnetic Store
B.)
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
C.)
2. d. initialized; when the tracks and sectors on magnetic disk are set.
4. e. a serious disk malfunction; when the read/write head touches the rotating disk.
5. a. file system that defines the structure for keeping track of the files.
1. Don’t update your anti-virus program regularly, since new viruses are created everyday.
6. Don’t leave floppies or hard drive near magnets; they can damage the data stored on them.
5. Word building
1. Magnetism.
2. Magnetically.
3. Magnetized.
4. Fragmentation.
5. Defragmenter.
6. Fragmented.