How is that even legal to sell that without CC…
How is that even legal to sell that without CC…
I thought the proliferation of touchscreens and screen readers was enough to show that regular society doesn’t give a flying fuck about the needs of the disabled?
A braille terminal costs a cool couple thousand bucks, so what’s a poor blind person to do? Get stuck using a fucking smartphone and screen readers.
Like even the equivalent of an Amazon Kindle for blind people is $700. A Kindle isn’t cheap, but holy fuck, it’s not $700, it’s more like $150.
http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-reader-20/
It’s obscene and makes me sad.
$700 is a bargain. My kid got a speech tablet which is just a small Samsung tablet with a speaker mounted on the back and they billed our insurance $3500 for it.
This could be the kind of device that could benefit from being open-sourced and 3D printed, combined with relatively accessible and low-voltage electronic parts out there.
As a curious individual, did you mean TV Closed Captioning or DVD Subtitles?
As a side note, the FCC does have a complaint page for reporting Captioning for certain services and for other issues.
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=36040
Info on the Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)
