The Free Internet Cafe for the Blind & Visually Impaired, the first in the whole of Africa, which opens the World Wide Web, making The Gambia a leading light in Africa, with this technology by allowing free and total access to surf the net send and receive emails and for students to enhace their studies with the aid of this pioneering software. No more do they need to rely on a third party to read to them newspapers, magazines, books, letters and world wide information. Nonvision.KingfisherGambia.com - Introduction to the Net
 

2.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE NET

The internet is like a giant electronic library. You can use it for finding information, shopping, communication with other people, music, news, on-demand radio and TV, books, sport, spiritual stuff and much more. Each website has its own address, e.g. www.bbc.co.uk. Each website is made up of a number of pages which are linked together.

When you first go to any website you arrive at its home page. This is like the contents page of a book. The Links take you to its other pages, a bit like being referred to a particular page in a book.

To use the internet you will need to be signed up with an internet service provider such as BT or Talktalk.

You will also need to use a computer program called an internet browser. For Thunder users, the choices are either Internet Explorer which is part of Windows, or WebbIE which comes as part of the Thunder download. Both programs have features which help you find what you want quickly and easily and work with all versions of Windows.

You can use Internet Explorer with Thunder. It looks normal to a seeing person and you can magnify websites easily.

 

The Free Internet Cafe for the Blind & Visually Impaired, the first in the whole of Africa, which opens the World Wide Web, making The Gambia a leading light in Africa, with this technology by allowing free and total access to surf the net send and receive emails and for students to enhace their studies with the aid of this pioneering software. No more do they need to rely on a third party to read to them newspapers, magazines, books, letters and world wide information.