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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 6, 2016 12:56PM

Great points everyone.
Let's keep in mind that people who use braille note takers or displays
with Brailleback are a very tiny portion of the user base. Getting
into the luxury of testing the braille display only experience for a
website is definitely a luxury most people cannot afford, nor would I
recommend it unless the site is in fantastic shape acessibility wise,
or the request and the funding is in place.
For OS based program, Windows in particular, some braille displa magic
was often very helpful to work around otherwise accessible controls.
For web-based ones, I have not seen this being as helpful, since most
scree readers can interact well with web-based applications.
All that corporate policy speak aside, I'd love to do such a demo,
maybe this is a project fit for CSUN 2017 (I am not presenting, and
Lucy only has 25 presentations). ;)
-B



On 12/6/16, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Jim,
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> Definitely, keep us posted. I'd like to learn the differences.
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