[nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discountonour Braille products

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good evening,

I don't understand how using a screen-reader is a loss of a direct 
interaction with information.  I would say that I interact with information 
directly, as I am able to navigate documents by page, paragraph, sentence, 
word, character, and am able to search documents for particular words and 
phrases.

Thanks,
Everett
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discountonour 
Braille products


I can't speak for Liz, but encouraging the use of braille and saying that it
is a tool that dramatically enhances the chances of being literate doesn't
in any way diminish the value of a live reader, a tape recorder, or some
kind of digital playback device. We need all of those things to live and
survive in the world, but far too often people believe that we can do
without braille without ever considering that they want all of the audio
options we now have but would never think about sacrificing a way to
directly interact with information as they do with print.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Yoo" <albertyoo1 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discount onour
Braille products



What about hiring a reader to read mail to you That would be some one else
reading to you having a screen reader or audio book Are readers okay? >
From: liz.bottner at gmail.com> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009
14:23:44 -0500> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200
discount on our Braille products> > Hi all, > > I don't mean to offend or
start any major heated discussion, but my own> personal view is that if
someone cannot read print and doesn't know Braille,> then they are, by all
means, illiterate. Just listening to audio or reading> via a screenreader on
the computer, in my view, isn't actually reading;> that's having things reed
to you. I'd be interested in others' thoughts on> this matter. > > Just my
thoughts, for what they're worth, > > Liz > > email: > liz.bottner at gmail.com
 > Visit my livejournal: > http://unsilenceddream.livejournal.com > Follow 
me
on Twitter:> http://twitter.com/lizbot > > > > >
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