Does anyone find Google's occasion logo today moderately funny?

[SunnyD]

I applaud them for celebrating the blind... however I find ironic that the logo is in color...

 

[bobbybe01]

......ribbit.



Good point. I guess.

 

[JoPh]

http://www.google.com/logos/braille.gif

 

[mugs]

Uh... you're making something out of nothing.

I'm sure all the blind people will be offended when they see it. Oh wait...

 

[BW86]

here

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: mugs
Uh... you're making something out of nothing.

I am. That's the point. I was like "Cool, it's in Braille... I know Braille now!". Though the screen was amazingly flat.

Then I got a chuckle when I mentioned to a coworker that the only reason I knew it said "Google" was that it was in color. Which... a blind person would never know...

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: mugs
Uh... you're making something out of nothing.

I am. That's the point. I was like "Cool, it's in Braille... I know Braille now!". Though the screen was amazingly flat.

Then I got a chuckle when I mentioned to a coworker that the only reason I knew it said "Google" was that it was in color. Which... a blind person would never know...

So if you went to google.com and saw that, you would have NO IDEA it was supposed to say google if the dots were black?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: mugs
Uh... you're making something out of nothing.

I am. That's the point. I was like "Cool, it's in Braille... I know Braille now!". Though the screen was amazingly flat.

Then I got a chuckle when I mentioned to a coworker that the only reason I knew it said "Google" was that it was in color. Which... a blind person would never know...

So if you went to google.com and saw that, you would have NO IDEA it was supposed to say google if the dots were black?

w3rd

 

[LeiZaK]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: mugs
Uh... you're making something out of nothing.

I am. That's the point. I was like "Cool, it's in Braille... I know Braille now!". Though the screen was amazingly flat.

Then I got a chuckle when I mentioned to a coworker that the only reason I knew it said "Google" was that it was in color. Which... a blind person would never know...

So if you went to google.com and saw that, you would have NO IDEA it was supposed to say google if the dots were black?

I found myself wondering the same thing.

 

[bigrash]

looks cool.

what difference does it make if it's in color or not. it's not like blind people would have been able to see it if it was in black and white. the whole point is, honoring who needs to be honored.

 

[dug777]

i like it 😉

 

[SunnyD]

Sheesh, never mind. The funny is lost on you guys.

 

[DrPizza]

😕
So, for us, for a change, we understand braille...
Yet, a blind person using a text to speech program to view webpages would get
"dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot..."

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Sheesh, never mind. The funny is lost on you guys.

I think the funny was lost before it ever made it to us. 😉

 

[Ktulu]

heh, it is a bit ironic

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
😕
So, for us, for a change, we understand braille...
Yet, a blind person using a text to speech program to view webpages would get
"dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot..."

It's an image, not text. They woul dget the alternative text which says "Happy Birthday Louis Braille!".

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
😕
So, for us, for a change, we understand braille...
Yet, a blind person using a text to speech program to view webpages would get
"dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot..."

Readers do not describe images.