Re: Screen readers and how to develop them: A historical perspective
- From: "Dennis Clark" <dennisgclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:40:24 -0800
Hello Quentin,
It sounds as though you had a very thorough math and science education. You
made a statement which made it sound as though English is not your native
language. Where did you grow up, and if outside the U.S., did you find the
education for blind students to be better than in the U.S. I appreciate you
taking the time to read my message and I look forward to hearing about your
background.
All the best,
Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: "QuentinC" <quentinc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Screen readers and how to develop them: A historical
perspective
This discussion is going more and more interesting, on math representation
now...
Even if I'm blind now since a couple of years, I have personnally remain
quite a visual person when dealing with math. I know that it could be
confusing for some people, but it's true.
When I was 15-18 in school right after secondary school (I don't know
precisely how you call this in english), I was quite good a solving
geometrical problems involving 3D vectors. In fact, I can imagine many
things in my head, while sighted people had systematicly to draw to
understand, even for rather simple problems.
My chemistry professor also had the nice idea to bring construction game
to show me how atoms were linked, and it helped me a lot.
When I reach the limit of my imagination (when a problem is too complex),
I'm still surprising myself moving my hands in the air... for an external
person, it should sure be a bit strange and funny. Note that, at the
beginning of my programming learning, I did the same when I had to imagine
myself memory to understand the concept of pointers in C...
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