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Question: Podcast about reading while blind / Braille - would love honest feedback. (x-post with r/disability) (self.Blind)
submitted 8y ago by ariana_g_tobin
Hello! I'm a sighted person who has spent the past few days with a screen-reader on trying to get a sense of what it's like to use Apple's Voice-Over features all the time for this public radio podcast story (http://www.wnyc.org/story/braille-obsolete/). Of course, I know I can't fully get it -- and I'd love feedback on what we may have overlooked in our podcast/post. I'm especially interested in how we could have made the media itself friendlier to vision-impaired readers. Any thoughts welcome.
fastfinge 3 points
Listening now. The m3u link is a nice touch; I have my own media player, with my own volume/equalizer settings, and neither need nor want Firefox to do that. I wish more media properties realized this.
I have opinions about Braille, and I'm sure I could flame on for hours. I'll resist the temptation, other than to say that the podcast did a good job representing both sides, and representing blind people in general. Much better than the media usually does.
My opinion in brief: Braille is important, but far too costly. If giving up Braille meant more money spent on mobility training, technology training, and employment training, I'd give it up. But it won't; giving up Braille will just mean spending less money on educating blind people overall. But we need to be spending every research dollar we can scrape together on bringing down the cost of Braille, the cost of devices, and the cost of education to a tenth of what it costs today. Oh, wait! I just said I wasn't going to do this rant. Sorry.
Anyway, New Tech City has itself a new international (Canadian) subscriber. That makes two or three WNYC podcasts I listen to, I think...I don't really keep track of who does what.
I have opinions about Braille, and I'm sure I could flame on for hours. I'll resist the temptation, other than to say that the podcast did a good job representing both sides, and representing blind people in general. Much better than the media usually does.
My opinion in brief: Braille is important, but far too costly. If giving up Braille meant more money spent on mobility training, technology training, and employment training, I'd give it up. But it won't; giving up Braille will just mean spending less money on educating blind people overall. But we need to be spending every research dollar we can scrape together on bringing down the cost of Braille, the cost of devices, and the cost of education to a tenth of what it costs today. Oh, wait! I just said I wasn't going to do this rant. Sorry.
Anyway, New Tech City has itself a new international (Canadian) subscriber. That makes two or three WNYC podcasts I listen to, I think...I don't really keep track of who does what.
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