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.
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And pirates win again!
Oh no subs? Let me just drag it into MPC… oop there’s subtitles now!
“It’s time for bread.”
"Egads I'm rekt"
"It's night time, Brad"
"You got that money"
Lol he's a goddamn liar
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
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.
$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.
Why not just buy a high end tablet and speaker at that point?
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.
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.
The fuck?
possibly
Good thing that my Plex server does
Walt Jr, I mean Flynn, will be very displeased