I have talked with someone who teaches various skills to blind people and she said she had heard assistive technology people say "why do they want braille displays, there's the synthetic speech and it's good enough". If it's true that they actually say so, then that should be a sign of warning. /Krister
3 maj 2012 kl. 18:31 skrev Kimber Gardner: >> >> I also don't buy into the statements that devices which make things >> easier for us are also making us dumber. > > I said something similar to my husband after reading the article which > was, on the whole, pretty good. But the assertion that screen readers > and audiobooks are responsible for blind kids/adults not being able to > spell is ludicrous. It's our lousy educational system that produces > rotten spellers, not adaptive technology. > > K > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
