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<div><div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto"> Dear Scott and others, I think that I’m curious to know what do people think we should do? Braille yes is critical and yes Google has stepped up to the plate to deal with braille by supporting the note taking vendors. Both Hims, and human where offer braille based notetakers that are powered by android. And if you’re done using one of those using Google products with a simple Braille Display should in theory work okay. So I’m asking what position should the division advocate on this issue? Because what I think I’m reading here is that no support for braille is better than some support and what about those deaf blind people who are culturally deaf server, do we say that okay they can have ASL only if we get braille I don’t think you want to pick one disability group against another that would be totally inappropriate. Just my two cents worth.</p>
<p dir="auto">On 6 Dec 2019, at 8:19, Scott Davert via NFB-DB wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="embedded"><div dir="auto">Thank you for passing this article along. It's just too bad the champions of accessibility don't seem to care enough to adiquitly support braille on Android. Consulting with braille users and then failing to take action based on that activity is even worse than doing nothing in my opinion. I'm glad for those who use ASL, but am saddened both by Google's lack of commitment toward braille users, and by all of the blindness organizations who supposedly promote braille literacy continue to avoid calling out Google directly. Instead, the give Google awdts...<div><br></div><div>Just my perspective,</div><div>Scott</div><div><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Dec 6, 2019, at 10:01 AM, Marsha via NFB-DB <<a href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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