[stylist] To ponder- taken to another level

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Aine,

Let me rephrase this: People who haven't had adequate Braille
instruction seem to have a lesser advantage over someone who uses a
screenreader soley but once had sight. Thos of you who had great, proper
Braille instruction are more likely to know and recognize grammar,
punctuation and spelling.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can
satisfy, we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for
another world."
C. S. Lewis

Message: 10
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:33:48 +0100
From: Aine Kelly-Costello <ainekc at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] To ponder- taken to another level
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Bridget,

Oh I totally agree. I'm not saying screenreaders don't work for 
editting, only that it's sometimes easy to miss things more than 
I would if reading the whole thing in Braille. Having said that, 
the only times I really do edit primarily with Braille are when 
writing something in Spanish or with poetry. I use my 
BrailleNote's synthesizer a lot for reading for pleasure and it 
doesn't bother me at all :)

Re the sighted vs blind thing, I'm not sure. I know my concepts 
of structure for projects are not always exactly spot on, but I 
definitely know to look for things like whether fonts on headings 
are working, whether the paragraph spacing is consistent etc etc.


Aine