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From: Don Mauck
Date: Dec 6, 2013 2:32PM

Dianne --
I've been thinking about something for a while and this may just have sparked a solution. I've been wondering how I could take a screenshot of a page on a phone such as an iPhone or an Android for that matter. Then I'd like to find a way to present it in a tactile way so that then I or any other blind user could actually see what that particular screen looked like. This would be great where you had areas of text or boxes and the like that weren't being spoken and you wanted to be able to describe it to a developer from a blind person perspective.
I'd been thinking about sending the picture to a Braille thermal form machine to see how or if I could get the tactual information presented correctly. I'm sure this sounds a bit confusing so please write or contact me offline if your interest is peaked at all but what I'm proposing, I hope this can generate some conversations.