I haven't seen any statistics lately, but I have heard in the past that Europe had a much higher literacy rate for Braille than we do. That is not surprising given the cost of the hardware, and the fact that, at least as far as I understand it, it is subsidized, so that all the blind people who need one can get a display at no cost in many European countries. We certainly cannot do that here. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:23 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nah Anders, I feel your pain completely. Even iOS has acceptable braille > support, so it’s not as if they couldn’t port that over to OS X. Clearly > nobody at Apple uses or cares about braille. Probably because it doesn’t > make them any money from hardware sales. Kinda tragic. > > Hey Scott, you can stop trolling now. The grand old US of A isn’t exactly > known for its braille literacy or deep regard for environmentalism either. :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
