and you know why braille displays are expensive? Our old problem, not many displays are made thus costs go up and blind people can't afford due circumstances, I'm not even going down that road. A catch 22 situation!
On 4 May 2012, at 01:47 PM, Russ Kiehne <wb6...@141.com> wrote: > Remember, many blind people don't have the money to buy a braille display > because of there cost. > > -----Original Message----- From: Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:04 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: great iphone article > > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
