Monday, February 26, 2007

Hey folks - Thought we could all use a little relief being as how it's midterm season. This is a clip from the movie Sneakers with Robert Redford, but it pertains to class. The story follows a group of hackers/pseudo-techno-criminals who have created a business that allows companies to hire them and test their security vulnerabilities by breaking or hacking into their buildings and/or networks. But everything goes awry when Robert Redford's former buddy resurfaces after his alleged death decades before to become the Sneakers' nemesis....

In this scene, David Straithairn, who plays a blind man and the team's lead tech guy, uses a refreshable braille display to read computer information displayed on the screen. It takes a minute to load, but it's kind of fun, and it shows some of the accessibility technology we're talking about.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=360vFPX-T_g

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