Day 21: How can a person who is deaf-blind interact with the web?
Deaf-blindness
is when a person has a combination of both vision and hearing loss.
There are approximately 45,000 to 50,000 individuals in the US who are
deaf-blind, but the majority will have some residual hearing and/or
vision.
The best way for a deaf-blind person to
interact with technology is by touch. As a result, people who are
deaf-blind use printed Braille or a refreshable Braille display
device. A Braille display works like a screen reader; reading the
information from a website, displaying the textual information in
Braille, rather than audibly reading it. The device uses metal or nylon
pins to create the characters. When the user moves to the next line,
the device automatically refreshes to display the next line's text.
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