Odd that you mention the number pad. I never used it until I started
working there. Someone asked me why I didn't use it, and I said that I
didn't use it because I just never had worked with it before. Over my lunch
period, I experimented and learned to use it.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
Hi Charles,
As to your first point I think it is a combination of issues. One of
them being education. Yes, it is true a lot of younger blind people,
particularly millennials,who don't read braille and may not know how
to spell well due to a tendency to rely too much on speech software.
However, even so regardless of the issue of speech verses braille I do
think we can blame the school they went to for not passing on a solid
foundation in spelling, grammar, and knowing the difference between
various words that sound alike but have different meanings.
The reason I say that is when I was in school I do clearly remember
the teachers teaching us the difference between to, too, and two and
other words like that which sound the same but have different
spellings and meanings. I recall we had these worksheets in English
class where we had to fill in the blank with the correct word and its
proper spelling. Either they no longer do this any more or many people
have failed to retain the knowledge, but it is clearly an educational
problem rather than a lack of braille literacy. After all I don't read
braille myself, but I definitely know the difference between words
like to, too, and two because it was taught to me in school at a
fairly early age.
In any case 20 words a minute is definitely a slow typing speed. As
you say taking down information over the phone such as credit card
numbers requires some fast typing so 40 words a minute should be a
bare minimum for that sort of job. Thanks be to number pads on
keyboards designed for fast entry of cred it card info, eh?
On 4/1/15, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote:
Part of it is due to texting so often. In the case of blind people, I
think
a lot has to do with not reading braille and just relying on speech.
They
don't know the difference between two, to, too, and 2.
As for the typing rate, I found it strange once I started doing work
there,
because we were expected to keep up with the rate at which customers gave
us
their credit card numbers. Most of the time, they rattled them off
fairly
quickly. I would have thought that 40 was a more reasonable requirement.
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