How to drive accessibility in software testing tricentis.com 2 © 2023 Tricentis USA Corp. All rights reserved | How was communication for a blind person in early 19th-century Italy? Rather challenging. So, Pellegrino Turri set out to do something about it. Turri is credited with inventing the first typewriter. There are various accounts, but if you listen to the Italian rumor mill from 1808, the speculation is that Turri was inspired to invent the typewriter to correspond with his lover Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano. The Countess was blind and unable to write love letters to Turri. Braille had not yet been invented, and blind people would dictate letters to sighted people to transcribe – a no-no for the private Countess’s secret love letters. Turri’s invention

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