On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Marcos Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > From my understanding, many blind and visually impaired people use hardware > that automatically generates Braille text so they can read computer screens. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display (others may use > screen reader/text to speech technology) > > I am doubtful that a server-side implementation of Braille conversion would > actually serve much of a purpose for this reason. > > I do think it may be a worthwhile idea to communicate to organizations of > the blind and visually impaired community to see if their accessibility > needs are fully met by Wikimedia sites.
There were at least two occasions when it turned out that it was useful to have in-house solution. One are web keyboards (obviously, touchscreen devices don't have all necessary languages, so web keyboards are useful in such situations) and the other is possibility for top-down writing (just Internet Explorer supports it; not sure even for the new MS web browser and nobody else bothers to create top-down rendering). So, it could make sense to make something similar. Those keyboards are very expensive and it could eventually bring to the majority of visually impaired relatively cheep devices with the software solution. (In other words, that web keyboard should add tactile feedback, as well as font rendering on screens could imply tactile features.) However, we are not yet there. And I definitely agree that we should communicate to organizations fo blind and visiually impaired community. I think US/Canada/Western Europe would be the best for the beginning. _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
