Our Vision
for the Vision Impaired
for the Vision Impaired
While we, personally, have not been touched by impaired vision or blindness, we have had professors and other acquaintances who have made us aware of the difficulties that the non-sighted community encounter daily. After visiting the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, we were even more motivated to make our audiobooks easily accessible to those who cannot read traditional books and who must overcome barriers to listen to audio recordings.
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Our Proposal
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"Wouldn't it be wonderful if all CD's were easily identified by touch?" was the first question we asked ourselves when considering our blind friends. After answering our own question ("...of course it would be!" is the correct answer in case you're wondering), we set out to figure out the "how?" and the "okay, now what?"
to our question. Putting Braille on a CD seems like an ideal solution
and we're left wondering why it hasn't been done before. |
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Our Progress
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Armed with our question and its obvious answer, we set
to work discovering the secret of putting Braille "dots" on the CD's
and found the possibility lies in the use of high-viscosity ink. This
technique was previously proposed by a large CD manufacturing company
for their rewritable CD-R line, but for unknown reasons, never made it
to the production stage. Currently, another reputable manufacturer
shares our vision and are researching this process for us. |
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Our Product |
This is where we will hopefully be able
to tell you that all of our audiobooks will have Braille labels, easily
readable by our blind friends. Each label will give the book's title
and the disk number, as well as indicating the top side of the CD. We
say hopefully because the idea is still in the
preliminary stages. As soon possible, we will shout out our successes;
in the meantime, look here for our latest announcements. |
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Quote: the Scribe |