Denis Deasy's blog

Hi, I am Denis Deasy and I work in the ICT team at Action. I was born with Cataracts in both eyes – I am partially sighted in my right eye. The simplest way to explain what I can see is, I can read the top line of an Eye chart at 6 meters (it used to be 20 feet), and I have good central vision but no peripheral sight – so I turn my head a lot to see. I lost all sight in my left eye when I was six or seven years old.

At work I have a computer with a 17” screen and I use screen magnification software to magnify everything on my computer screen, I am using it now as I type this blog. This means I only see a faction of the screen that a fully sighted person sees, but all the text and graphics are still there, you just don’t see them at once. So one of the best features of screen magnification software is the fact that the cursor and the mouse pointer are automatically tracked / followed on screen. It also helps being a touch typist – I had to give up cookery at school to learn touch typing – so my cookery has suffered.

Although I work in IT, this is not going to be a computer / techy blog. I will be writing about various things over the coming months, for example using public transport and mobile phones.