[stylist] To ponder- taken to another level

[Aine Kelly-Costello]

ah, yes -  I'd agree with you there
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From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
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Subject: [stylist] To ponder- taken to another level


> 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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> 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
>
>
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