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 with or without technology. I apologize for getting off topic. I just feel it is so important to learn braille if you cannot use print. I will never read Braille as fast as I used to read print but it has greatly enhanced my life.
Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse any spelling errors. On 05/01/2013, at 5:42 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > 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 sight loss of SOME > kind use braille. there are far more options for getting information that > people can choose from these days. > much success finding the solution fitting your unique experiences and needs. > Karen > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > >> 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 the same rules when >> reading by blocks of text. >> 3-Because of how the text is formatted in the textbook pdfs, it would be a >> tremendous ammount of superfluous work to ask disability staff at uni to >> modify everything for me. >> >> The solution would just be an option in the voice over >> utility/speech/pronounciations where each added custom pronounciation has >> it's verbosity setting. Say you want semi-colons to be spoken but not >> colons, or brackets versus perenthesis or square brackets when they surround >> normal brackets, etc etc. The difference between all or most is >> insignificant, and there should be a more granular approach for specialized >> text such as for engineering or special litterature. >> >> I have sent a detailed description through the developer site and hope >> someone might look into it >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "Light has no value without darkness" >> Mob: +642102277190 >> Skype: Shainobi1 >> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 >> >> This message is protected by article 4-210 of a certain book of laws but you >> don't have to worry about privacy issues if you are the intended recipient. >> However, if any freakish circumstance such as ip sniffing, honey pot open >> relay servers or an honest mistake caused a transmission error, please >> advise the sender and throw your laptop into a bubble bath to avoid all >> illicit data retention. >> >> On 6/01/2013, at 6:40 AM, Laura M <laura.mcgl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That's exactly what I was going to suggest. It's not a perfect solution, >>> but it's the one I use in these situations. Sometimes I find I need to put >>> a space before or after the symbol when I'm writing the text in the >>> pronunciation editor. 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