We now have a Braille device standard

[Underseer]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-if-publishes-standard-braille-displays,37154.html

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has published a Human Interface Device (HID) standard for braille displays. The standard is supposed to make it easier for the blind or visually impaired to use braille displays with a variety of operating systems and other devices. Think of it this way: most traditional displays are compatible with pretty much everything; why shouldn't braille displays offer the same convenience?

This is great news for blind people.

I'm surprised it took this long to establish a standard for Braille input/output devices. I would have thought that was a done deal already.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I can't see a point to this.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I can't see a point to this.

Was that brilliant punnery or just LP indifference?

 

[bilby]

It's nice to have a feel good story once in a while

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I can't see a point to this.

Was that brilliant punnery or just LP indifference?

I thought the humor was obvious.

 

[Underseer]

I can't see a point to this.

Was that brilliant punnery or just LP indifference?

I thought the humor was obvious.

It was.

He still has a valid point, though.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I can't see a point to this.

Was that brilliant punnery or just LP indifference?

I thought the humor was obvious.

Yes, but the indifference was obvious as well. Pretty much 50/50, I had no idea which it was. Glad the prior.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I thought the humor was obvious.

Yes, but the indifference was obvious as well. Pretty much 50/50, I had no idea which it was. Glad the prior.

Why do you see indifference? My post was purely humor.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I thought the humor was obvious.

Yes, but the indifference was obvious as well. Pretty much 50/50, I had no idea which it was. Glad the prior.

Why do you see indifference? My post was purely humor.

If you have to ask...

 

[barbos]

I thought the humor was obvious.

Yes, but the indifference was obvious as well. Pretty much 50/50, I had no idea which it was. Glad the prior.

Why do you see indifference? My post was purely attempt at humor.

Fixed for you.

 

[Underseer]

Loren, don't listen to those meanie meanheads.

I for one admire the massive self-control it must have taken to avoid making a claim that this somehow constitutes harm to the sighted. You should be praised, not mocked.

 

[bilby]

A braille device standard?

That's touching.