[blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS

[Rahul Bajaj]

Dear Dr. Harpour,

This is excellent, thank you for sharing your approach. I have been
thinking of adopting the same approach. I have some follow-ups for
you:

First, when reading text aloud in this fashion, do you speak
organically as you listen, or do you listen, commit to memory what you
have heard and speak it out loud in a seamless fashion?

Second, at what speed rate do you keep JAWS when getting it to read
aloud the text?

Third, do you feel that you are able to sound natural and maintain the
desired tone while doing this? One difficulty I foresee with doing it
is sounding disjointed and unnatural while speaking. Also, I am
wondering if it is possible to tonally emphasize some specific words
or phrases when adopting this strategy.

On the whole, it certainly does sound like a viable solution. Thank
you, again, for sharing it.

Best,
Rahul

On 09/01/2020, Paul Harpur via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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-----
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> via BlindLaw
> Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2020 7:42 PM
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> 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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Rahul Bajaj
Candidate for the MPhil in Law
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
University of Oxford