If Eric knows what he knows about JAWS, it is because he not only sells
it, but he has been on the ground floor of its development.
And, my teachers at school for the blind read Braille with their eyes,
and they taught me proficiency just the same.
On 12/31/2015 4:06 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
Angel,
While this is a fine goal in theory, for both personal and
financial reasons it will not happen in practice. Were I in the
position Mr. Damery is in I would probably be doing the same thing. And
I say the following without a trace of snarkery toward him or his
skills, because I've been in parallel situations, but one does what one
must for the "Dog and Pony Shows," which is precisely what many of us
call trade shows. You become incredibly proficient at what you need to
be when it's needed for practical reasons. I had a good friend who was
100% hearing, but her partner was 100% deaf, and she was one of the best
signers I've known. She used to pride herself, and justifiably, on the
fact that deaf individuals would insist that she could not possibly be
hearing and be able to sign like she could. She literally fooled them
(not intentionally, mind you) into believing she was deaf simply because
of her fluency and depth of vocabulary in sign.
I am almost slack-jawed at the idea that anyone sighted could
ever become good with tactile reading of Braille. I could actually
visually read Braille, at least at the word level, upside down and
backwards (literally) when I was doing drill work with some of my
students when I worked at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the
Blind. There was no embosser that did a cheat I would have loved to
have had, with the actual letters printed alongside the Braille
embossing. But I learned as much as I could in the context where I had
to use it so that I knew whether or not I was getting the answers I was
supposed to be getting.
Brian
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