QR codes and accessibility

[Deborah Stanley]

I must admit, I don't know what kind of smart phones our visually
impaired users carry. I need to get in touch with our Disability
Services people and see what they can tell me about the kinds of
phones and the work around, as Hugh mentioned. I would have thought an
iPhone with Siri would be useful, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks, everyone, for your input on this!

Deborah


On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> On 2012-08-31 21:29, Deborah Stanley wrote:
>> Presumably if someone has a phone with an app that can read print
>> (i.e. hard copy print such as posters, fliers, handouts), we could put
>> the URL next to the QR code, so that the phone could read it.
>
> The QR code *is* a URL that brings up a web page in
> the smart phone. That web page could/should of course
> be friendly to the visually impaired. But how do they
> find the QR code? Maybe some braille text next to it?
> And what kind of smart phones do your visually impaired
> users typically carry?
>
>
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