{"id":5952,"date":"2024-08-15T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2024-08-16T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:29:03","slug":"accessible-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2024\/08\/15\/accessible-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"accessible tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping a blind woman out with some things around her apartment, and one of the things she needed was for me to see if I could figure out why she was having trouble with some email and websites.<\/p>\n<p>This is her tablet.\u00a0 The white dots in the front &#8220;read&#8221; the content of the message, webpage or whatever, and translate it into Braille, which she can then read. The top buttons are what she uses to type in Braille, and then that is translated into written English.\u00a0 The top part flips up to a screen that a sighted person can use.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was super cool.\u00a0 She found\u00a0 me amusing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5953\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-500x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-500x367.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-200x147.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-1536x1127.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240815_205906630-2048x1503.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping a blind woman out with some things around her apartment, and one of the things she needed was for me to see if I could figure out why she was having trouble with some email and websites. This is her tablet.\u00a0 The white dots in the front &#8220;read&#8221; the content of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2024\/08\/15\/accessible-tech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">accessible tech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5956,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}