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I send postal mail instead of email. Anything I should do for potentially blind recipients? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/main@rblind.com
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I refuse to send email to most recipients (those using MS or Google mail servers). It’s not individuals who receive my mail, but gov offices, NGOs, and corporations.

So my question is, is there anything I could do if there is a blind recipient? I figure an office would never task a blind worker to handle postal mail. A blind worker would likely be working with email because it’s more easily read (using a screen reader).

Am I accommodating enough if my documents are scannable and OCR-able?

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[–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago*

Thanks for the link.

“Small-volume braille printers cost between $1,800 and $5,000 and large-volume ones may cost between $10,000 and $80,000.”

Well, I guess that settles that option. Perhaps a print shop would have one, but I suppose it would not be cheap to use if they have to recover their investement. I would have to know that my recipient were blind to take that option.

OTOH, I also thought: I could record my voice (either reading my letter or giving a summary), then post on the web with a password, and put a QR code in the letter to an URL that includes the pw as an argument. But a blind person wouldn’t see the QR code. So that kills that idea. In principle, such a practice could theoretically be standardised with the QR code in an expected position.

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