no, this isn't a spambot, it's someone working out some new tech reearch.
I'm interested, but I'd want to know a little more about how this would work, and also whether you need to be in america, sinse if it is some sort of hard ware device, getting it around the world could be difficult (this is after all a completely international forum). Also, how much would it cost? These days you stick the word accessibility onto anything, and you can add another zero.
Braille packs of cards for instance are about 15 pounds, that's around 25 dollars over here, where as you can get a standard printed pack for next to nothing, and when the device is some sort of electronic systems that price can go exponential, ---- look at the prices of braille displays for example.
As regards poker, even if you don't count blind adrenaline cardroom, Quentin C playroom and All in play which let you play accessible poker online, you can play poker and other standard card games quite successfully with a normal pack of braille cards, indeed that was how I started myself, playing poker for pennies at school with a load of sighted friends, ---- indeed I was the only vi student at that school.
When I noticed people were playing poker I thought I'd take along a braille pack and try myself and this worked very well.
I do however find the idea of a device that could read ccg (collectable card game), cards interesting. My brother is an international standard ccg player and has frequently gone to tournaments around the world to play ufs (universal fighting system), wwe roar, and occasionally other games like pokemon or magic the gathering as well.
I'd be interested in a machine that could read cards as played, sinse obviously even brailling my own! cards wouldn't help because I'd still need to read those of my opponent, and as there are thousands of cards per game with new ones being released continually, it'd be very time consuming to try and braille them all.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)