Google Chrome has a built-in reside caption function. This accessibility function shows captions for media you play on any browser tab. Taking this yet another step forward, Google is including Braille show assist to reside captions.
Word: Based mostly on my preliminary evaluation, it is a Chrome browser function, however restricted to Chrome OS.
In keeping with Wikipedia:
A refreshable braille show or braille terminal is an electro-mechanical system for displaying braille characters, often via round-tipped pins raised via holes in a flat floor. Visually impaired laptop customers who can not use a regular laptop monitor can use it to learn textual content output. Deafblind laptop customers can also use refreshable braille shows.
From this description, this appears like a tool that may consistently show textual content in braille, refreshing it because the textual content modifications.
For individuals utilizing this show, Chrome can now caption any supported content material even when the media or the platform doesn’t have captions.
The experimental Chrome flag I noticed is focused in the direction of “Ash”, the desktop UI of Chrome OS. After studying about this system, I actually hope they add it to Google Chrome on all platforms.
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Supply: Chromium Gerrit.
