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Re: Independence Day

#11

Post by scoot »

lukasm wrote: post #7

The site is unreadable. Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzncMLLOxE

I don't know, I found the audio combined with the text & images incredibly engaging, although I did wish for a visual cue from time to when I lost my place (I was reading in sync, but got distracted).

Re: Independence Day

#12

Post by dbpatterson »

scoot wrote: post #11
lukasm wrote: post #7

The site is unreadable. Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzncMLLOxE

I don't know, I found the audio combined with the text & images incredibly engaging, although I did wish for a visual cue from time to when I lost my place (I was reading in sync, but got distracted).

Perhaps it worked better on your browser, but the content was so delayed that many times I scrolled past it before it decided to load. So I was constantly having to scroll back and forth to try to figure out whether a blank spot was truly blank (sometimes it was). Pretty frustrating. And the irony is almost too much...

Re: Independence Day

#13

Post by Mithaldu »

lukasm wrote: post #7

The site is unreadable. Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzncMLLOxE

Wow, that video is fairly offensive if you look at the details.

- Video ostensibly made for blind people. Says: "Buy a windows phone." Writes: "Or any other smartphone."

- Video goes "65% of blind people are unemployed." Video suggests: "Buy an expensive smartphone, and a set of expensive special headphones."

- Video goes "65% of blind people are unemployed." Video promises the world, but only if one lives in a city with bluetooth beacons everywhere. ()

And at the end it makes clear why everything is so incongruous, they want to have everyone use this as a personal assistant.

Re: Independence Day

#14

Post by kruk »

It will take a huge amount of beacons to make this useful. But a worthy cause and an interesting solution. Let's wait and see if anything comes out of it.

Re: Independence Day

#16

Post by xyclos »

"a reminder you're walking by a place with great Chinese takeout"

is this just a way to target ads at people with a disability? if all I'm trying to do is get form point A to point B, the last think I want is "interesting facts about history" or targeted ads.

Re: Independence Day

#17

Post by cyanbane »

lukasm wrote: post #7

The site is unreadable. Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzncMLLOxE

I think it was a great presentation of the material. I enjoyed all of it except I think that the audible clicking went on a little too much of the page scroll.

Re: Independence Day

#19

Post by coherentpony »

Colour me cynical, but this seems like the perfect opportunity for Microsoft to take payment from corporations to adjust a blind person's route past said corporations' branches, thereby providing a sneaky targeted advertising campaign.
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