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When I bring up that some accessibility improvement to support the blind doesn't help the deaf-blind (who have much reduced screen readers), the people pushing
by SkyBelow 7y ago
When I bring up that some accessibility improvement to support the blind doesn't help the deaf-blind (who have much reduced screen readers), the people pushing for accessibility brings up that it would be too costly to support everyone. The irony seems lost on them.
- ineedasername 7y agoWhat sort of screen readers are available for the dead-blind? Braille?
- kps 7y ago> What sort of screen readers are available for the dead-blind? None at all, even though the dead-blind greatly outnumber the living-blind. This area is ripe for technological disruption.
- ineedasername 7y agoOops, should be deaf-blind. But you're right: I may have accidentally stumbled upon a market that, apart from cryogenics, has nearly zero products marketed toward them. And what of the living? Why can't they get the whole "dead" experience without the full commitment? I see DaaS (death as a service) with monthly subscription as a completely untapped pool of demand.
- SkyBelow 7y agoIt feeds it into a single line of braille they can read. You can imagine why any complicated site becomes an extreme pain to interact with.