John,

From What I know of this technology, it is similar to remote access software
in that it paints a picture if you will on the screen of the laptop and
screen readers cannot deal with it.

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From: "John Gardner" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: Beyond the Blackboard


At worst the new technology is no less accessible than a blackboard.  At
best it could be made very accessible.  It won't happen by tomorrow, but
when information is made electronic, one has at least a ray of possibility
to also make it accessible.  In principle at least there are already
display technologies that could make this kind of display much more
readable by people having low vision.  Technologies of the future could
extend that accessibility to totally blind people.  This is obviously not
an "access technology", but it's going in the right direction at
least.  That's my opinion.

John






At 04:43 PM 1/12/2003 -0800, Betty Nobel wrote:
>I hope that software can be built into this technology to convert images
>to text or describe them so that accessibility is improved.  Otherwise,
>this will be as difficult to access for a blind person as the
>old-fashioned blackboard is still today.
>

John Gardner
Professor and Director, Science Access Project
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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