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Chieko Asakawa : ウィキペディア英語版 | Chieko Asakawa
is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility.〔.〕 A Netscape browser plug-in which she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available.〔 She is the recipient of numerous industry and government awards. ==Education and career== Asakawa was born with normal sight, but after she injured her optic nerve in a swimming accident at age 11, she began losing her sight, and by age 14 she was fully blind.〔 She earned a bachelor's degree in English literature at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka in 1982 and then began a two-year computer programming course for blind people using an Optacon to translate print to tactile sensation. She joined IBM Research with a temporary position in 1984,〔 and became a permanent staff researcher there one year later.〔〔 In 2004 she earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo.〔
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