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The Braille Superstore

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Well I thought it was funny.
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Re: The Braille Superstore

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Fail :mrgreen:. Truly an epic fail, and really funny :D

The bad thing is, is that the website is a legitimate site. How are they going to read it? Do they expect Lilly to always have a friend reading to her what's on the computer? Terrible, really. It was so bad that I half expected them to have a directions page.
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Yubiseiharukana wrote:Do they expect Lilly to always have a friend reading to her what's on the computer?
well if she's on a computer, she either has some text-to-speech program, or she has a friend. she wouldn't be able to read anything on the computer in the first place.

also, i noticed that braille is bold, meaning you were searching "braille" in google (or whatever). why were you searching for braille in the first place?
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The slogan made me smile, but I don't see anything funny about an online store selling products that were made with blind people in mind. Of course blind people themselves can't navigate the site, but seeing that not every shop-around-the-corner sells the kind of things the site sells, I think it's a lot more convenient for blind people to ask a friend or relative to browse the site with them and then have the goods delivered at home than to ask a friend/relative to drive them over to the nearest store that has those kind of specialized articles on the shelves. ("nearest" may be a hundred miles away or more for a lot of people)

Or maybe I just missed the joke...
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LOL, you get a lot of those ads on the net, especially ones being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Guest Poster wrote:Of course blind people themselves can't navigate the site
That's just not true. Narrator and such exist for a reason. I'm sure it would be harder, and obviously any video is going to be lost on them, but Narrator for things like Windows XP is specifically designed to work with IE.
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What's really funny is the website that had a video of someone signing the words, alongside the text. I guess it's for illiterate deaf people?
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It really, really pains me how nobody seems to be able to see why that line is funny.

Apart from that, you wouldn't believe how many lines of that caliber we remove from the game daily. And I don't doubt that we'll still miss quite a few.
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Do those Google ads show up as pictures or text(haven't seen one in a while, har har)

If it's an image then it's especially fail, unless your text to speech program reads all the URLS as well.
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kosherbacon wrote:Do those Google ads show up as pictures or text?
google ads are text
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delta wrote:You wouldn't believe how many lines of that caliber we remove from the game daily. And I don't doubt that we'll still miss quite a few.
Damn, I guess that means the lines about Hisao and Rin holding hands won't make it to the final release. :cry:

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I run the Firesign Theatre website including a home-grown php-based chat, and I modified it at the behest of a blind fan who sometimes shows up for the chats. Blind people use the web too, that's why good web pages still have text modes instead of requiring flash or something.
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It's pretty tasteless to address yourselves to your potential customers, who are blind or near blind people, and tell them they have never seen your products before.
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delta wrote:Apart from that, you wouldn't believe how many lines of that caliber we remove from the game daily. And I don't doubt that we'll still miss quite a few.
You tell'em. I caught myself recently deleting and remodeling of a storyline in a fanfic just cause I forgot that Lilly couldn't see a movie and Shizune overhear a conversation >.> stupid errors make the world go round and round
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Smoku wrote:I forgot that Lilly couldn't see a movie and Shizune overhear a conversation
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