RE: Screen readers and how to develop them: A historical perspective
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:24:51 -0500
Laugh I agree I use my hands my wife is always making fun of me because I
still look at my wrist when I check the time. I also look like I am
counting on my fingers when I am doing problems like the other day I was
working out how much flooring I had to buy for a 7 by 12 room when the boxes
covered 17.5 square feet and you need to add 10 to 20% to get enough. I was
moving my fingers but not for counting it they work as place holders or
variables like I would say ok my pinky is 210.00 square feet which is what
the room was so I can remember the number I have no idea why it works but
now that finger is 210.00 square feet. If I think pinky I get that number.
I do that with all kinds of equations.
Ken
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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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