Newspaper now accessible to the blind.

BOSTON -- Technology is helping bring the Boston Globe to blind and visually impaired people, according a officials from a Watertown, Mass., non-profit association. The Globe can now be accessed through the Newsline for the Blind, which is a new service announced on June 17 by VISION Community Services.

VISION, which is a division of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind, receives digital transmissions from the Globe and other newspapers -- including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal -- every day and transforms them into electronically scanned speech versions of the newspapers. Using a touch-tone phone, callers can dial a …