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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
And that cramming them with additional options for the sake of accessibility, will force them to invest into more powerful hardware just to make them function properly.
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How much those additional options cost, depends upon what accessibility function they are designed for. Regardless, the biggest expense is usually not the hardware, but rather the royalty payment to use the mathemtical algorithm that the accessibility function relies upon.
I won't deny that things like Moon Screens, Braille Display monitors, and the like are expensive. The law does allow for products that contain them, to be sold for more than products that don't contain them. (My guestimate is that a Nook with a 20 character Braille Display would cost roughly US$400 more than one without it.)
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There are better ways to approach reading a novel/textbook without actually reading it. Like audiobooks, apps on tablets, lectures, and video.
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There is a difference between reading the Braille version of a book, and listening to the TTS version, and listening to the audiobook, and watching the video. How many of those videos are
audio captioned? Compare that to the number of videos that are
closed captioned.
Amber