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It sank in... braille on the shifter. Brilliant!! :laughing
 
I saw the braille one before, but I was too focused on what was going on with that truck bed. And then I saw it...two stupid teenagers!
 
The Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway has braille legends on all the scenic overlook diagrams.

My job location has 'No Smoking' signage with no raised braille lettering, just print.
 
buellistic said:
In Campbell pruneyard there was a Drive through Atm writing in brail..
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Pushrod said:
The Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway has braille legends on all the scenic overlook diagrams.

My job location has 'No Smoking' signage with no raised braille lettering, just print.
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You can thank poorly written ADA laws and Saul Goodman wannabe lawyers for that.
 
Kornholio said:
You can thank poorly written ADA laws and Saul Goodman wannabe lawyers for that.
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I dunno, I can imagine blind folks wanting to have the area they're in described to them. Perhaps learning a history of a place.

I mean, how many historical markers have you read that are just out in the middle of nowhere.

"100 years ago, 1/2 miles from here, something happened." "Oh! Interesting!"

Mind, you'd think the blind person might have someone with them, but I can see them even still wanting to learn about things, even if they can't see them.

There's some theaters now I think that you can get audio description devices so blind folks can, perhaps, enjoy a movie.
 
Kornholio said:
You can thank poorly written ADA laws and Saul Goodman wannabe lawyers for that.
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Any progress is better than no progress. I'd rather tune than construct. It is a good thing for the sighted to be aware of some of the irony the blind experience.

I had my eyes opened when volunteering for an organization that advocated for the blind where I live. (Sorry for the pun, but the blind always laughed at it.)
 
Pushrod said:
The Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway has braille legends on all the scenic overlook diagrams.
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I imagine one day you will be able to scan a bar code and hear about the overlooks. Certainly that would be cool for anyone really.
 
budman said:
I imagine one day you will be able to scan a bar code and hear about the overlooks. Certainly that would be cool for anyone really.
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What I saw the tech companies step up and provide for the blind left me in awe.

Optical Kursweil readers that convert printed text to spoken prose. Those users were listening at 300 words a minute, I couldn't keep up. White canes with radar sets that the user could go jogging with, I couldn't keep up. An entire store loaded with adaptive kitchen utensils, they cooked by time and odor.

The bar code scanners are now old hat for them, in that world it's everywhere.

The next frontier are the implantable ocular chips giving the profoundly blind artificial vision wired directly to the vision center of the brain. The blind might be the first to enter the brave new world that's coming.
 
Pushrod said:
Any progress is better than no progress. I'd rather tune than construct. It is a good thing for the sighted to be aware of some of the irony the blind experience.

I had my eyes opened when volunteering for an organization that advocated for the blind where I live. (Sorry for the pun, but the blind always laughed at it.)
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I'm not anti-ADA at all. The level of shittiness that those lawyers will stoop to along with broadly written ADA laws (that had every good intention and didn't expect Saul Goodman) are why there's brail on things that most likely will never have a single blind or near-blind person near them throughout their existence.
 
budman said:
I imagine one day you will be able to scan a bar code and hear about the overlooks. Certainly that would be cool for anyone really.
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I had that thought a few years ago when students were tasked with creating interpretive signage for a threatened marsh adjacent to the school site. "Hey, why don't we just laser etch a QR code into aluminum and wire them to the fences?" Boom, done. Kids created a google site loaded with original art and eco learning snippets for the landing page. Same for gardens and ceremonial tree planting on campus. The driver was cost btw. Signs are regulated and expensive as hell. At least when you propose installing one on city property...
 
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