Re: Screen readers and how to develop them: A historical perspective
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:20:14 -0600
Hi, Sina,
Please see my responses below. I want to make it clear that I don't
decry the use of technology. I think I came across as thinking this
way when I responsed to Ken's message by stating that braille is
useful when you don't have your tech around to help out. I did not
mean that you should not use it, give it up, or that it needed to go
away.
On 12/22/10, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can read grade 2 Braille at possibly 100 words per minute, on a good day.
> I'm also, or at least used to be, fluent in nemeth for
> the level of math I took, which was several semesters of calculus, linear
> algebra, differential equations, etc.
Came in handy, did it not?
> I definitely think braille is necessary, and amazingly useful,
My point exactly!
> when doing
> things like matrices, integrals, and complex derivatives,
> but there are other approaches to accomplish the same things.
Glad you said so. I use braille a lot in math and find using speech
only rather cumbersome for this task. Long calculations require that
you can write your work out and refer to it as you go through it.
Lowers the margin for error since you eliminate reliance on memory
and remove the "forget" factor. Braille and print for that matter,
doesn't get sleepy, doesn't get distracted and doesn't have brain
farts. It is the constant in the equation.
>
> Now, as a comparison, I understand synthetic speech at over 1,000 words per
> minute.
Awesome. Congratulations! I wish I did. I can do 400 but that's about it.
> Forgive me for not giving up my 10X efficiency.
Noone's asking you to. Speech is a tool, braille is a tool, both do
good things and both are worth having and using to the best possible
advantage. You should not cheat yourself out of either.
> Take care,
> Sina
>
Regards,
Alex M
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