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Why not just go back to morse code.

• hueving 10y ago
  Because it's harder to read.
  • haimez 10y ago
    Plus the accessibility story is a nightmare.
    • toast0 10y ago
      Morse is readily adaptable to whatever you can sense: I've experienced it with sound, light, and vibration. Taste, heat, and smell might not work so well. For input, you need to be able to reliably close and open a switch. This may be difficult for people with tremors, but many accessibility systems are built around single bit inputs, so it's a start. If you can manage another input method, it can be translated to Morse as well. Internationalization is harder, it's not a good fit for non-alphabetic languages.
      • haimez 10y ago
        You are correct, I was being snide. Morse code is highly translatable to other senses assuming that the audience had a reason to learn it. I can't think of a single disability with lack of temporal awareness, and only a few with impediments to temporal perception (as you noted). That said, I don't know ANY blind sea captains. This will be a problem for adoption.