[blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS

Fri Jan 10 06:40:06 UTC 2020

Hello

This is a really useful question and I would love to be part of any
off-list discussions. I have to say that I have not learned how to do
this well. I sometimes get asked to read out pieces of text without an
opportunity to practice first or break it up and in circumstances
where it is critical to quote from the document precisely and I have
to say I find that difficult to do with JAWS without sounding like
something of a robot myself. Any suggestions?

Ger

On 1/10/20, Paul Harpur via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I also take 2 laptops if I am presenting.  I mostly lecture so I have power
> points on one and notes on the other.  I have had one fail and I can restart
> it while using the other.
> Overkill is better than being dead on your feet.
>
>
> Dr Paul Harpur
> BBus (HRm), LLB (Hons) LLM, PhD, solicitor of the High Court of Australia
> (non-practicing)
> Fulbright Future Scholar/International Distinguished Fellow, Burton Blatt
> Institute, SU, New York/Academic Fellow, Harvard Law School Project on
> Disabilities.
> Associate Professor
> The University of Queensland Law School
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Mendez [mailto:luismendez.law at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 10 January 2020 11:33 AM
> To: 'Blind Law Mailing List' <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Paul Harpur <p.harpur at law.uq.edu.au>
> Subject: RE: [blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS
>
> Good evening Dr. Harpur:
>
> Thanks for sharing your approach.  The approach you have outlined seems
> particularly well suited to giving presentations using a 40-cell braille
> display. I am partial to using an outline method reinforced with a complete
> text if a speech or reference notes when I was presenting an oral argument.
> However,  technology can and does fail.  Knowing your material, practice and
> having a backup are indispensable.
>
> Luis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Paul Harpur via
> BlindLaw
> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 5:24 AM
> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Paul Harpur <p.harpur at law.uq.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS
>
> I am not sure I do it fantastically, but what I do is have a bite size
> amount of text on each line.  I then arrow down each line as the line above
> is finishing.  I have my screen reader speaking at slightly faster than I
> am.
> Here is part of a speech I gave recently at the a ILO workshop.
>
> We are up here on a small platform but we have a big message Thank you
> Frances Today I want to focus my paper on Workers with Disabilities Working
> in the Global Gig Economy
> This project forms 	part of a wider collaborative work between myself and
> Professor Peter Blanck   Professor Blanck chairs  the Burton Blatt Institute
>  Syracuse Universitywhere I am also an international distinguished fellow
> I am going to start my presentation by analysing how technology and
> universal design
> is enabling workers with disabilities to participate in the global gig
> economy
> Second
> I will show how this new market is creating new policy and regulatory
> opportunities to enable persons with disabilities to become workers with
> disabilities we have heard in other sessions how technology can be used as
> an enabler Universal Design can guide the design of environments processes
> policies technologies and tools
> to facilitate the inclusion of all people in society
> Universal design however can do more than this
> Universal design can create new work opportunities Universal design can
> Create new opportunities  for economic advancement Universal design can
> provide people with disabilities who have been denied their right to work
> access to work it can make persons with disabilities into workers with
> disabilities
>
>
> Dr Paul Harpur
> BBus (HRm), LLB (Hons) LLM, PhD, solicitor of the High Court of Australia
> (non-practicing) Fulbright Future Scholar/International Distinguished
> Fellow, Burton Blatt Institute, SU, New York/Academic Fellow, Harvard Law
> School Project on Disabilities.
> Associate Professor
> The University of Queensland Law School
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj
> via BlindLaw
> Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2020 7:42 PM
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS
>
> Hi, all,
>
> Are any of you here able to do this in a natural-sounding and seamless way?
> If so, how? One solution is Braille. However, I started learning Braille as
> an adult a couple of years ago and still have a long way to go to get to a
> point where I might be able to deploy it in this context. So I’d really like
> to learn how to do this with JAWS on a war footing.
>
> Most blind people I know cannot do this. But some can which suggests to me
> that it is a learnable skill.
>
> Best,
> Rahul
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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