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Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.”

Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.”

Update: 2023-11-13

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Naomi Rosenberg, assistant director of the Media and Accessible Design Lab at San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind, discusses the art of making fingertip-readable maps: why clutter is the enemy of good tactile maps, the quest for an affordable embosser, being locked to 24 pt. type, creating large-scale accessible maps for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the OSM-filtering behind their Tactile Maps Automated Production software, why 3D-printed maps are (literally) painful for users, the barriers to high-res tactile displays, and how a good tactile designer needs to “forget about their eyes.”

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Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.”

Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.”

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