Comment on The latest box set of the Breaking Bad series doesn't have closed captioning.

mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How is that even legal to sell that without CC…

  I thought the proliferation of touchscreens and screen readers was enough to show that regular society doesn’t give a flying fuck about the needs of the disabled?

  A braille terminal costs a cool couple thousand bucks, so what’s a poor blind person to do? Get stuck using a fucking smartphone and screen readers.

  Like even the equivalent of an Amazon Kindle for blind people is $700. A Kindle isn’t cheap, but holy fuck, it’s not $700, it’s more like $150.

  www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-reader-20/

  It’s obscene and makes me sad.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    $700 is a bargain. My kid got a speech tablet which is just a small Samsung tablet with a speaker mounted on the back and they billed our insurance $3500 for it.

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    • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why not just buy a high end tablet and speaker at that point?

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      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Mainly because insurance paid for it but also because I don’t have the skills to replicate their software even though it’s essentially just text-to-speech software with what might as well be considered clipart images.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This could be the kind of device that could benefit from being open-sourced and 3D printed, combined with relatively accessible and low-voltage electronic parts out there.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve watched blind people use iPhones just fine before when I participated in User Testing of some web software.

    It’s amazing what the accessibility functionality on iOS does.

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