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question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

When Matt and Karen and Foggy are hashing things out over their laptops Matt has a braille reader of some sort connected to his computer. Is that a screenreader of some sort? A line by line thing?

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure it's a refreshable Braille display, which is a type of screenreader. There's a wikipedia article on them here, and the picture looks basically like what Matt has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display

(also, holy shit, those things are EXPENSIVE, I wonder if it's something he can get subsidized somehow? Does anyone know how disability law works on that?)

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

Daaaamn that is cool as fuck!

Maybe Matt paid for it with the cocaine money. Hahaha

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

I can see Matt getting it through scholarship money, and whatever university he went to for his undergraduate degree maybe helping him get one for a reduced price or something or being able to get one through a grant. Matt would definitely be the sort to get scholarships for good grades and scholarships for students in financial need, and I am sure there are scholarships for students who have a accessibility needs.

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

There's another article about Braille displays here: https://www.afb.org/ProdBrowseCatResults.asp?CatID=43

I quote, "The price of braille displays range from $3,500 to $15,000, depending on the number of characters displayed." :-O

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

We don't see actually see him using it during college, do we?
I have to be out the door in 30 seconds, but look at the ADA website. Idk if it's national or just state by state, but in some cases the govt will pay %50 of costs of making your workplace accessible. Still a big chunk of change, but law students are used to huge debts

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think so. I imagine he had an audio screenreader in college--the only time I remember seeing it is in the office.

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair we only saw him when he was just moving into his dorm room, and then when he was walking around drunk with Foggy.

Although, those things are expensive so he probably wouldn't be able to afford one back then (unless he used bursary or scholarship money to buy one).

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

Found it!
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Tax-Benefits-for-Businesses-Who-Have-Employees-with-Disabilities

So he'd need to fork over the dough up front, but Nelson and Murdock can claim it on their taxes and be reimbursed for a certain percent. There's some other tax stuff for blind people and small companies with disabled employees also, but I haven't gone through it yet.

Re: question about Matt's tech

[(Anonymous)]

So, I read the article and now I'm wondering if we can made some sort of refreshable tacticle screen for viewing art based on it.