Wu Dongbing (left), who is visually impaired, reads a Braille book with the help of a librarian at the Shanxi Library in Taiyuan, Shanxi province in China. Photo: China Daily/ANN
Apart from offering Braille books, the Shanxi Library in Taiyuan, Shanxi province in China, is trying its best to satisfy the needs of the visually impaired by reading books aloud and playing movies accompanied by real-time narration.
Ren Xiangshu, a librarian in the reading room for the visually impaired, regularly serves as a movie narrator while “showing” films. Ren said the audiences enjoy the process very much because her vivid narration triggers their imagination.
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