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Is 'quickly scrolling' practicle for blind people?

Article quote: "The material also responds quickly, allowing a reader to scroll through a document or Web site quickly," he explained.

I'm curious to know how much input blind people have given to this project. It seems to me that quickly scrolling a web page works *because* a person can see the page. Perhapse a better tool for the blind would be a search function that puts the 'found' text at a person's fingertips (literally) or would search for the next bold text (implying a paragraph header). Standards would be nice, perhapse they can be implemented in HTML5. :)

posted by : mike, 06 July 2010 Complain about this comment
Be great if they could do this with cellphones too

I read about a technology a while back where a screen can be made to be raised and lowered so that people could have actual physical buttons to press when they type. Make the raised buttons in a slightly finer fashion and you have a way to use Braille on a cellphone.

posted by : Jason Goatcher, 05 July 2010 Complain about this comment

Boffins are working on displays for the visually impaired

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