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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by leghifla on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:17AM (#35723973)
About touch buttons, I have seen once a lift with touch buttons for controls. For accessibility, the floor were also written in Braille. I thought to myself: "nice, they thought about vision impaired people".

Then, a friend of mine, which has completely lost vision and can read Braille, jokingly said to me when he arrived: "Trying to find the right button, I probably send the lift to all floors!"

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by klabb3 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:34AM (#35724079)
That’s funny. And sad. Vision impaired people have really been taken by a rollercoaster with modern tech. First the touch screen which is useless (not sure if that’s the case still?). But then tech companies invested massively in voice interfaces for completely unrelated reasons, which I assume, is a godsend.
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