Andrew Flatres and his team focused on the Monarch for Podcast number ten.
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What I really liked are some of the unique ideas people mentioned, like asking Chat-GPT to create a simple line drawing and reviewing it in the tactile viewer. Three users are interviewed; two are Rise participants. They also discuss how they effectively use Split Braille mode with JAWS and also reading Excel spreadsheets.
Though I often post about limitations or things I’d like to see improved, or feature requests, I do love the Monarch. I feel it’s my duty as a tester to point out issues, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t really enjoy using split Braille, reading books, examining grapics, and doing the other things the users in the podcast mentioned.
For example, I never considered taking any linguistics classes until I had the Monarch; now I realize it will be easy to look at the universal phonetic alphabet with the device.
Computer science students will also find the UDL symbols easy to read as well. Though complex visual graphics are beyond us many times, there are many simple symbols that we can finally touch and grasp. Users spoke about this in the podcast.
I am not sure if the above link is going to render correctly when this topic is posted; the podcast is called “See Things Differently” from Humanware, and it’s episode number ten. So any podcast client should be able to grab it.