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by blindgeek
929 days ago
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Another metaphor would be a screenshot of bash, or a screenshot of cat, or a
screenshot of the original /bin/ed. Next they'll be wanting someone to
stream a session of /bin/cat on youtube.
Yes, this program was developed with blind people in mind. Plenty of
sighted people have found uses for it, and that's lovely.
For blind people, there's really no equivalent to the screenshot. Maybe
a typescript.
Maybe a few minutes of audio from a TTS.
Of course, the latter would be useless to a deaf-blind person.
But our best bet is reading some docu and taking it for a spin.
It is not too much to ask of sighted people to step out of their comfort
zones for a little while. Your world is highly suboptimal for me. Care
to step into mine for a bit?
Not having access to cheap visual imagery is in fact no cross to bear. |
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That said, I suspect such requests are not fully baseless.
While nothing beats actually putting on a blindfold and trying, it does not seem unreasonable for a sighted person to try to find out what, e.g., Braille looks like. This knowledge may give them ideas into how it could be possible to incorporate more of it into predominantly visual spaces, for example. We have different modes of attending to the world, and in fact it is seeing Braille in public spaces that reminds many sighted people that not being able to see it is actually a thing (and perhaps even prompts some to learn it).
Is it not similar with software? If it could increase adoption of accessible software among users who do not need it in their current state, would that not support the goal? (Not to deny that screenshots are really beside the point when it comes to documentation completeness of such software, of course.)