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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Dec 6, 2013 8:58AM

Dianne,

I am so impressed! Perhaps I'm jumping way ahead here, but I started thinking about how this might work with a GIS system. A GIS user can pick the data layers they want included (usually sitting on top of some generic layers, such as geopolitical boundaries, roads, etc., and their associated labels.) It doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to allow a tactile user to also select the texture or sounds to apply to the selected layers. Thus the user would create a new map, rather than having to have someone else do it for them.

If you get tired of working with crop maps, perhaps you could look into the map that is most often used as an example of something really hard to provide text equivalents for: the dreaded campus map.

sb
Sarah E. Bourne
Director of Assistive Technology &
Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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