Think I might have gone a little overboard with my however's on that last one. Blame it on the early hour, and the need for caffeine.
-----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 8:03 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: RE: OneNote Blind, Blind Tunes, Spotify Blind now support braille I agree. However, for my money, speech is a close second, as opposed to being "read to." These setups allow us to check spelling, punctuation, or just about anything else we need or desire. However, may I add that \my appreciation of these things comes from a lifetime of reading braille. I guess the main disadvantages of braille are, and always will be, bulk an cost. Electronic braille is overcoming the latter; However, whether hard copy or electronic, braille will never be cheap. Ted -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Maschmeyer Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 6:18 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: OneNote Blind, Blind Tunes, Spotify Blind now support braille John Martyn said, >Just thought I'd throw this one out there since there are some braille >users still. What is meant by "still"? Is it the contention that being read to, whether by machine or human, is an adequate substitute for reading? Blind people are putting their foot in their mouth all over the place because of misunderstandings created by speech and are generally blissfully unaware of it. Examples? All of these are from other lists; speech users will have to use the SpellWord function to make this intelligible: Somebody was talking about establishing a partnership using ActiveSync. He said he chose the Guess option. Somebody talked about words containing apostrophes, like childrens' and her's. I even had one argue with me about how to spell "yeah." Note that in this message I even spelled Martyn correctly. Speech is a great advancement. It's faster, generally much faster, than braille and sometimes it's more accurate; but it's also frequently less accurate. People have been screaming about the death of braille since the 'sixties. Let's hope they don't succeed in killing it until we have a better substitute than speech. I am not a member of any blind organization. <grin> -- Lee Maschmeyer "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." --Lewis Carroll _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
