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Originally Posted by DNSB
One of the best one paragraph items I ran into on semantic vs. visual markup:
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Yes, text to speech, or maybe a Braille terminal. Some people are deaf as well as visually impaired. Text to speech may also be used by those with limited or no reading ability.
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Top 10 Least Literate Countries in the World:
Chad - 2016 - 22.31%
Guinea - 2014 - 32.00%
South Sudan - 2018 - 34.52%
Niger - 2018 - 35.05%
Mali - 2018 - 35.47%
Central African Republic - 37.40%
Burkina Faso - 2018 - 41.22%
Benin - 2018 - 42.36%
Afghanistan - 2018 - 43.02%
Sierra Leone - 2018 - 43.21%
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Note the basic qualification of "literacy" for statistics may fall far short of reading a textbook or fiction for youths to adults.
Also sematic markup potentially helps with translation.
I know what "printed" (really embossed) Braille is like, but not what a terminal is able to do. Recorded audio (since 1890s) has made a huge difference, especially when tape came (cassettes are actually better than CDs for audio books in many ways and digital files may have device accessibility issues).