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These days, it's almost impossible to log on to your email account without discovering a bunch of spam messages offering you loans, a certain treatment that rhymes with Niagara or, worst of all, a seedy email from Lusty Linda of Luxembourg which features words that would make even the most broad-minded person blush.

So you can imagine what it's like if you're visually impaired and use a screen-reader on your PC. The only way to sift through all that spam to locate your genuine emails is by listening to the subject line of every message. If you're working in an office, you've got the added bonus of everyone around you being able to hear that you've been sent an email offering to improve your manhood. Nice. And all that before we've even mentioned the huge amount of extra time it takes to go through your daily deluge of spam using a screen-reader.

A new report in addresses this problem, and whether there's any technological solution.