Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion

11:00 am

Ms Eithne Walsh:

Regarding digital papers, we made the breakthrough two years ago. Those papers are fine; they are non-editable PDFs. The student is given the flexibility to pinch the screen and determine the size he or she needs. What we really need are papers that the students’ reading devices can read, so they will not be as dependent on a reader and can work in the way they work in school. That is the ideal option.