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 an enhancement here, as it would really bring some clarity when i read technical documents :) Best Yuma "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 3:41 PM, Rod Skene <skene...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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