• m-p{3}
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    122 days ago

    How is that even legal to sell that without CC…

    • Snot Flickerman
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      122 days ago

      How is that even legal to sell that without CC…

      I thought the proliferation of touchscreens and screen readers was enough to show that regular society doesn’t give a flying fuck about the needs of the disabled?

      A braille terminal costs a cool couple thousand bucks, so what’s a poor blind person to do? Get stuck using a fucking smartphone and screen readers.

      Like even the equivalent of an Amazon Kindle for blind people is $700. A Kindle isn’t cheap, but holy fuck, it’s not $700, it’s more like $150.

      http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-reader-20/

      It’s obscene and makes me sad.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 days ago

        $700 is a bargain. My kid got a speech tablet which is just a small Samsung tablet with a speaker mounted on the back and they billed our insurance $3500 for it.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 days ago

            Mainly because insurance paid for it but also because I don’t have the skills to replicate their software even though it’s essentially just text-to-speech software with what might as well be considered clipart images.

      • m-p{3}
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        42 days ago

        This could be the kind of device that could benefit from being open-sourced and 3D printed, combined with relatively accessible and low-voltage electronic parts out there.

      • paraphrand
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        32 days ago

        I’ve watched blind people use iPhones just fine before when I participated in User Testing of some web software.

        It’s amazing what the accessibility functionality on iOS does.

  • EleventhHour
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    42 days ago

    Good thing that my Plex server does