I love that more operating systems, like Android, are beginning, as of like last year or so, to take Braille seriously. In the US, the National Library service

I love that more operating systems, like Android, are beginning, as of like last year or so, to take Braille seriously. In the US, the National Library service for the blind (and print disabled) are rolling out a service where Braille readers get a free Braille display, a device which connects to a screen reader on a device to offer Braille input and output. The Braille display they're giving out can also download and display books from their service. The display I got, one by a company called Humanware, uses the Braille HID protocol, which Apple readily accepted and implemented, along with NVDA, and I think BRLTTY. NVDA is a screen reader on Windows, and BRLTTY is a cross platform but mostly Linux screen reader that mainly works with Braille instead of speech. So, The NLS EReader as they're called works pretty well with the iPhone and Mac, NVDA, JAWS, BRLTTY, and the Chromebook. But it wasn't until a few weeks ago, when the TalkBack folks released their six-month-update, did TalkBack even support the NLS EReader... over USB. Apparently, the Bluetooth stack has to be substantially changed to allow Braille HID over Bluetooth. So yeah, Apple has the advantage of supporting this thing for a few years, although there are definitely bugs. Hopefully, as these devices become much more prominent in the US, screen readers will try to grab onto the fact that many more people have Braille.