Blind Kids, Touchscreen Phones, and the End of Braille? by Manoush Zomorodi | Free Audiobook

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Title: Blind Kids, Touchscreen Phones, and the End of Braille?
Author: Manoush Zomorodi, Ryan Kailath
Format: Original Recording
Length: 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-31-16
Publisher: Note to Self, WNYC Studios
Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Summary:
The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is stocked with all kinds of gadgets: singing calculators, talking typewriters, even video games that you navigate using only sound. Most are specialized and expensive the school can afford them, but a lot of families cant.
There is one piece of tech, however, that almost every student has, and, absolutely every student wants. Its a status symbol, its a social media machine, and it will read text out loud. Yes, it's an iPhone. And 'reading' on a smartphone is gaining prominence as a reliable tool for the visually impaired.
However this tool is the center of a larger question blind students and society at large are facing: Are iPads and iPhones rendering Braille obsolete? And if so, should advocates for the visually impaired be worried?

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