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If you can't find accessible formats, or you want to look at small physical things like a receipt, photo, notepad, crossword or other small item, you can magnif
by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
If you can't find accessible formats, or you want to look at small physical things like a receipt, photo, notepad, crossword or other small item, you can magnify things using a digital overhead projector. Basically a camera on an arm that looks down on the book or item, and you project the video onto a wall. Sometimes used in lectures in place of an overhead projector. You want to find a camera with a wide depth of field to avoid fiddling with focus the whole time and a screen or wall coating that looks good to the user.
The other advantage is it can help offset "old person neck" by making you look forward, not down, and you can interact with the item, for example by writing on it, without faffing about with a keyboard.
Obviously doesn't work for full blindness, or if only near-focus is possible, but magnifying something up to 8 feet across goes some way.