Dark, I think likening reading via braille to chopping down firewood is a rather absurd and unrealistic analogy. If I am sighted, how do I read eMails or webpages? I most probably look at my computer screen, a method clearly analogous to braille. And despite what you seem to be implying here, there are most certainly concrete uses for braille. For instance, I am a lector at my church. I shutter at even the thought of taking an audio book player up there and repeating back the text that way. Even repeating back what a screenreader tells you is inefficient since it is usually stilted and without any inflection or feeling.
Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 7:13 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] is it really progress? - Re: end of keyboards, was Throwaway Tech To me that is a narrow definition of reading charlse. If an author wrote the words and I understand them, I've read them, heck even when I used to read books in braille I always imagined the sound of the words in my brain rather than just picking up on the letters. For a sighted person, it is slightly different, but given the time it takes to read something in braille why take the time? If you think these old skills are so valuable, well do you have central heating in your home or do you go out, chop down trees and put them on a fire? Do you go out and hunt creatures in the forest with a spear? sinse hay, what would you do without electricity. Unless tactile display can catch up with technology, (which I hope it does), I don't personally see braille surviving as a medium sinse the majority of things it can do for conveying information can be done far more easily and cheaply by a screen reader. As regards speaking, well as I said I could see a problem if the software is too dictatorial, but if you could for example specify your punctuation and spell your fantasy names to the software so you would have the same creative freedom with your text as you would when typing, ---- well what is the problem? Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
