Re:Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I...
by burfog on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:51PM
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At that point, just use Morse code. For small buildings, the cuckoo clock method works too.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I...
by bobthepanda on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:55PM
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the main reason why elevators in Hong Kong do not is that most of them are high speed high-rise elevators and the numbers just whip by. It would probably be very frantic sounding to use Morse if you went from ground to 50 in less than a minute.
Instead they only announces floors that are stopped on, so this works fine.
One benefit of using spoken vernaculars rather than Morse is that Morse has to be taught; Hong Kong historically draws large portions of its population from migrants originating from all over China, where until recently there was wide variance in schooling and literacy rates.