[bookport] Re: THANK YOU GUYS!
- From: DanFlasar@xxxxxxx
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:28:33 EST
I lost most of my central vision 10 years ago. Though I can still visually
read, it is painfully slow and not always accurate. I jumped to talking
books, OCR, Kurzweil 1000, JAWS and now the bookport successively. What a
great
time to lose your vision! I've always been an excellent writer and speller
but I've noticed an alarming frequency of typos over the years. I used to
visually check what I typed as I typed but I can't do this very well anymore -
it slows me down too much. Secondly, since I no longer read newspapers -
visually - there are a lot of words, especially proper names - that I never
'see'. Secondly, I've been finding that I've forgotten a lot of correct
spellings. I'm so surprised that the act of visual reading provided me with a
constant reminder of how words are spelled. I, too, try to use the spell
checker or
at least have JAWS read the text back to me so I can proof it that way.
And it doesn't help that the level of literacy in formal writing is
declining.
Dan
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