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.
$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.
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.
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.
20 Comments
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 47 pts · 1y
And pirates win again!
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Oh no subs? Let me just drag it into MPC… oop there’s subtitles now!
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 42 pts · 1y
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
“It’s time for bread.”
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
"Egads I'm rekt"
egrets@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
"It's night time, Brad"
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
"You got that money"
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Lol he's a goddamn liar
forgetful_fox@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
As a curious individual, did you mean TV Closed Captioning or DVD Subtitles?
As a side note, the FCC does have a complaint page for reporting Captioning for certain services and for other issues.
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=36040
Info on the Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)
https://www.fcc.gov/cvaa
mp3@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 1y
How is that even legal to sell that without CC..
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y
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.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
$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.
datavoid@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Why not just buy a high end tablet and speaker at that point?
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
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.
mp3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
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@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
The fuck?
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
possibly
EleventhHour@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Good thing that my Plex server does
shoulderoforion@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
Walt Jr, I mean Flynn, will be very displeased
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y