Re: for advanced users only

2013-01-06 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi again, thanks for the side-track feedback on braille. I know it's a rather important and also beneficial skill to have. Don't know how long it will take me to be fully capable but i think i will eventually need to jump into it. I will try what Mark suggested though i'm fully advocating for

Re: for advanced users only

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Baxter
This is a perfect example of something that needs to be brought up with accessibility!apple.com Why not create a voice that has the settings to pronounce all those special symbols and characters? I should think it'd just be a matter of a different dictionary, but maybe it's something you

re: for advanced users only

2013-01-05 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi All, Thanks for the suggestions. However: 1-being relatively recently blind, i haven't had much time learning braille as my disability is related to trauma and only went for fundamentals, and i'm too slow for anything on that front. 2-i tried dictionary suggestion but voice over assumes

Re: for advanced users only

2013-01-05 Thread Mark Baxter
Okay, how about another approach. Go through with a find and replace, function and replace all the examples of Theta or Iota or Nu or whatever with the words theta, iota, nu. This is your copy of the textbook, you can mark it up however you want. Also, in passing, I would note that different

re: for advanced users only

2013-01-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi yuma, I love that tag at the end of your message BTW...bubble bath indeed. I simply wanted to point out that you are in the majority not being a braille user. Even a basic google of braille brings up figures indicating less than 15% even less than 10% in some cases of those experiencing

Re: for advanced users only

2013-01-05 Thread Rod Skene
True, a small percentage of blind people use braille. However, as much as 90% of blind people employed today are Braille users. I would recommend anyone who cannot use print to learn braille. I learned braille as an adult because I am newly blinded too. it has given me many more opportunities