The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124299   Message #2744572
Posted By: Jack Campin
12-Oct-09 - 09:21 PM
Thread Name: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
I (A) have a visual impairment and (B) study while doing aquatic workouts and (C) have a crap monitor, as I have now twice said.

The maps on the page I referred to are quite simple and low-res. Anything with a bitmap display should be able to make something of them. (I'm writing this on a twin-monitor system - one is an LCD screen that cost me 15 quid from a charity shop, the other is an old CRT that I got for free).


(Do we ask music requestors if rhey are tone deaf or can;t read notation?!?!?!)

If somebody's totally blind they need to be supplied with the information in a different form - my website is designed to do exactly that, and I've had it tested by totally blind users. It's not a silly question at all and I've put a great deal of effort into answering it. It is quite possible there are good solutions for displaying maps for the blind which might help you, but nobody will offer unless you say what the problem is.

BTW Mudcat has supplied tunes in audio file formats since it started, and has never supplied staff notation directly. If you ask for notation, ABC is the nearest you'll get, and more often the answer will be in MIDI.

One problem the site I gave you might have is with colour, if you're deuteranopic.