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Waiting for Accessability (self.Blind)
submitted by BlueRock956
In your opinion, how much time is reasonable for people with disabilities to wait for accessibility?
1. Textbooks for school?
2. Best selling novels?
3. Audio description for movies and shows?
4. Accessibility on smart phone applications?
vwlsmssng 5 points 4y ago
> Textbooks for school?

Every school student should get the materials they need to study without delay. You don't get a second chance at learning with your age group.

The free market doesn't work here so I would want the state to intervene.

> Best selling novels?

If you made it mandatory for all novels to be available as audio-books you may restrict the publishing of books sold in small quantities or distributed for free.

Audio-books are also dual use, many people have them to listen to when driving or working. I'd be inclined to let the market operate freely here.

Potentially AI and voice synthesis could make it very cheap and easy for robots to generate good audio-book versions,


> Audio description for movies and shows?

This is a facility really only of benefit to VI consumers so I would want state intervention to make this happen for a reasonable proportion of content.

> Accessibility on smart phone applications?

Again to mitigate the chilling effect of state regulation I would allow a threshold on the number of units shipped / downloaded before accessibility became mandatory.

Once you are big enough then accessibility should be built in from the outset.

State intervention would include grants and tax breaks as well as regulation.
Californiaolivia 3 points 4y ago
This generation. Just be patient and also know your rights. But be a change and not issue.
theawesomeaquarist 0 points 4y ago
6 months
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