Dasha, many of us "sighted" people have frustrating disabilities as well, but I do I hear your pain. It's a pain in the butt to have to depend on someone else, isn't it?
I am eternally grateful for all the blind volunteers here who scan books. While I can see, I can't use my hands well enough to do much with a scanner. I can't really hold a printed book easily or turn its pages, so being able to see a printed book doesn't help me read.
A big cheer for all the Bookshare volunteers, as we seem to always find ways to use each others abilities to offset our disabilities. Smile.
Judy s. On 6/4/2012 8:37 PM, Dasha Radford wrote:
Yes and when there is the other audio option for us blind sucks. Wait around until some cited person can either find a time or condescend's to come and read something to you or we did over the phone. Thus, getting books and audio formats and using them maybe tedious but it's preferable to waiting around and making proof times longer. About to the only thing you need a sighted person before then is if you have page numbers missing since many audio formats don't include page numbers. Sometimes I wish the reading in some of the bookshare books didn't use as many because it honestly breaks up the story for some people. There's also the fact that when one uses a screen reader the screen reader has to stop and read the page number. Talk about annoying and that is. Sorry to all you sighted people out there I like you but I hate waiting around. Particularly if I can find some other way to get it done. Daria Radford
