Yahoo! Mail, one of the largest free e-mail provider has launched a new product called the Yahoo! Mail Classic, making it easier for the visually impaired to benefit from the Internet especially the e-Mail service.

Interestingly, the Yahoo! Mail Classic functions on all standard screen reader software and can be used by the common masses too.

In this product, the screen reader software identifies the text for the user and then transforms it to sound and speech or even a Braille printout that helps even the blind to use the mail.

According to Visually impaired, they are currently not able to access the site because of its high graphics and advertisements. But now with this classic version, which even has a magnifier, have become much easier to access the site.

For instance, when a person clicks on the mail icon, the software will send out speech or sounds like ‘enter your user id’, ‘now enter your password’ or ‘click on the following icon’ making it easy for the visually challenged to use the mailing system on the Internet.

This novel ideal has been made possible with the aim to make the company’s products available to everyone, even the visually impaired. The team of experts was led by Victor Tsaran, popularly known as accessibility guru!