I read this out to my roommate and commented, “Isn’t this funny? They completely forgot about sign language.”
They just stared at me.
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Did you try communicating in clicks?
Hold on, let me give it a go.
I’m being evicted.
Shit happens. Some people just never "click".
Clearly, there are stupid questions.
How can I communicate with redditors?
This
The most reddit thing you could say.
"Reddit moment"
Ugh I feel dirty even writing it out.
r/SomeRelatedSubName
Repeat comments from the last time that particular post was last posted before.
Really pushing the boundaries of “no stupid questions” here.
You really gotta hand it to blind prostitutes
This one snuck up on me after a couple of seconds. Lol
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How do I communicate with blind people?, submitted by Redacted to /r/NoStupidQuestions
Like obviously there's Braille but is there some form of clicking I can do with my tongue to simulate Braille verbally?
Edit: nvm you can just talk to them
Good human.
How do you communicate with someone who's
- deaf
- blind
- mute
- insensitive to touch
- also imperforate nostrils
- impervious to "mind" control and standard boilerplate cognition ;)
I invent an elaborate language around smells and my farts become my voice as a combination of musk and vibrations where the scent and timbre of my fart mean different things depending on the context.
This is the only way.
Dude read book base on an alien race that used smells as a language. Called Agent to The Stars.
Also insensible to smell
YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE RULES!
I TOTALLY just heard Snake the felon on The Simpsons saying this and it made me laugh
Edit: The goalposts, they are a'movin'
You might enjoy "The Androids Dream" by John Scalzi.
Telepathically, of course...
I forgot to menyion they have a chromosomal issue that makes their mind—let's say less receptive—to extrasensory perception and boilerplate cognition🤕
Re-presencing.
Most ironic subreddit name ever
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Drink more Ovaltine?
Drink water with a lot of sugar, it's the same.
Ok so less stupid I hope, how do blind folks use touch screen devices? Do they use an audio or braille reader?
To begin with, blindness is a spectrum and not an on/off switch. That means blind people can still often see something, even if it's not clear or bright etc. Accessibility tech for touch screens is often just making the displayed content larger or higher contrast, as well as screen reader capabilities, combined with gestures, hotspots, there's definitely some capability for use of a touchscreen while vision is impaired
Visually impaired can use high contrast, large text for easier reading. More typically an equipment made accessible for people with visual impairments and blindess would have tactile buttons (often with Braille) and audio prompts.
Screens that can produce raised Braille text anywhere are rather uncommon.
My dad is completely blind. In the past you're correct that it would have been tactile, but they've gone to touch screens pretty universally. I can't speak to android, but iPhones have really good accessibility settings. For the fully blind they have a setup with a screen reader where you can tap the screen and it says what's in that section then you tap it again to actually click it. The more common way (at least for him) of using it is to drag your finger around the screen - each section will give haptic feedback and read it off every time your finger enters a new section.
Theuch bigger problem is smaller websites and apps that don't bother going through the extra effort to define these sections in such a way that the iPhone can tell what it's supposed to be reading or even where the section really is.
Fully blind people will need to use some sort of text-to-speech software. Partially blind / low vision people can often get by with high contrast and larger text.
Also, dumbphones.
You can just talk to them?! What a time to be alive.
IT HELPS IF YOU YELL, OK?
If you yell too much, they won't see where they're going.