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“Many people who are blind already have their own methods to differentiate between cards, such as cutting off a piece of one or adding a sticker, said Samuel Proulx, who is blind and works as an accessibility evangelist at Fable Tech Labs Inc., an accessibility-testing platform. The notch designs align well with these methods, he said.” —WSJ
Multi-award winning values-based engineering, accessibility, and inclusion leader
Shout out to Samuel Proulx who was quoted in this article. Two takeaways: 1) #Braille isn't always the solution. a) People who lose their #vision mid-life or later tend not to learn it. b) The total Braille literacy rate for children who are legally #blind in North America is around 10 % This is the type of information you learn when you listen to real users with lived experience in your User Research process. 2) Yay for #CurbCuts! I can see sighted people using this feature as well, especially as you reach into a bag that you can't see into or if you are multitasking, you will be able to ID some cards by touch. #Accessibility #Inclusion https://lnkd.in/g2gn8JB6
