Highland Society for Blind People

Volunteering in IT

How Can You Help?

If you have a few hours to spare and are interested in helping people with sensory impairment in your area you might consider joining us at our Sensory Centre in THURSO, WICK or INVERNESS and help us with supporting sensory impaired people to:

Access the Internet
Access e-mail
Write a letter
Print Labels
Make a Birthday Card
Scan Photographs
Not be afraid to switch on a Computer

Our Technology

We use Dell Computers
Operate on Windows XP.
Software is Office XP Professional

Additional Software:

Zoom Text
JAWS
OCR

We do not expect volunteers to have knowledge of any of the above systems, we will be happy to train you. All we ask is that you have basic knowledge of any previous Windows based system and lots of patience.