Infrastructures | Computers Room
Background
The computer room was created in 1989, within the framework of the European program of education of
visually-impaired individuals in the area of information technology. For first time in Greece blind
individuals were given the opportunity to come in contact with personal computers, via special software
[screen readers] and material [voice composer]. Since then more than 400 individuals have been trained
on PCs and the equipment has been upgraded many times.
Equipment
Today there are 10 workstations, connected to a local server, with the following description:
- Windows XP, Office XP
- Hal 5.20, [screen reader]
- Supernova [magnified screen for the partially-sighted]
- Sound card [in place of speech synthesizer]
- Scanner
- Braille Printer
- Internet access through ADSL line 512 Kbps
ECDL Certificate
In the Computer room our students can take their examination to acquire the ECDL Certificate.