Phase 2, Post 4: Lauren Kehoe & Julia Kim

The three technologies that came up in the lecture that stuck out to me and surprised me were Touch This Page, Boston line type, and the BARD app. While Touch This Page is at Dibner, I actually have not seen it, which illustrates my privilege in not looking around. Some people see through world through touch and I don't, so it didn't come up. The Boston line type was something I wasn't aware about. I only knew about Braille, and when I tried to do a little bit of research into Boston line type, I couldn't find much material on it, which goes to show how uneducated the sighted community is. Braille was being developed at the same time and is on a dot system rather than a raised Roman system. Dots are a lot easier to distinguish in a tactile manner than the Roman alphabet is. I was impressed by the BARD app, and how much material is on it. I read that they have 330,000 pieces of reading material.
In the podcast provided on sense and scale, I found out that only 10% of visually impaired know Braille,  as most people are not born visually impaired, it tends to be developed over time. Also tactile senses decrease with your age, which brings up the social identity of age, and how even tactile text, which we see as accessible to visually impaired people has inequality in terms of age. I also found out that most people rely on audio, but this also brings up the hearing impaired SSI. There's also the class SSI brought up when we think about schooling and education in how to read some of these typefaces.
Audio Visual technology is not accessible to all but remains the primary method of distributing information in a mainstream way. Also I believe we are very binary with how we classify impairments. We simplify because we don't understand that blind and deaf does not always mean in totality, and because of this, some design and just general knowledge about the topic ignore a lot of people within the vision impaired community that may not benefit as much by some forms of type that we consider to be for vision impaired. 

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