Viewsonic announces Monitor for the Blind

Posted by Matthew on Friday April 11, 2003 @10:47PM

from the Life-Imitates-Satire dept.

News

Matthew writes: Viewsonic has announced a new monitor for the blind, that, when combined with Viewsonic’s Braille font and the removal of all other fonts on the computer promises to make computers accessible for thousands of vision impaired users.

The monitor works much like a “bed of nails” toy that uses an array of tiny pins…

[Editor's note: I was half way through writing this when I found an actual press release in a Google search. Slashnot apologizes for any inconvenience this juxtaposition between reality and satire may have caused.]

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  1. Subject:No Subject Given

    There's also a PDA for the blind coming with a small Braille 'display' and a Braille keyboard. Impressive stuff.

    Comment by Michael — April 12, 2003 @ 12:45 am

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