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OT- DIABETIC - typing while blind
(Barry Grau) wrote in
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> Julia Altshuler > wrote in message
> news:<enPTb.169872$5V2.855893@attbi_s53>...
>> I've known a few blind people over the course of my life. Their
>> typing has been perfect including capitals, lower case, punctuation,
>> the works.
>
> I would expect a typewriter or computer keyboard might be easier to
> use than a Perkins brailler because you only press one key at a time.
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>> Since a computer designed for the blind can make the typeface any
>> size, I don't understand how all caps could be easier. (I believe
>> what
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> I believe that there is serious refereed published research which
> indicates that, at least for normally sighted people, mixed case is
> easier to read because the ascenders and descenders create a kind of
> envelope that helps the reader predict what a word will be before he
> actually focuses on it. Similarly, text printed with a ragged right
> margin is easier to read than right justified text.
>
>> you say; I'm just trying to puzzle this out.) Special computers can
>> also raise dots in a way for reading Braille. Still, the bottom line
>> is that no one has to read anything they don't want to. I can't
>> stand reading messages in all caps so I skip those.
I don't disagree with anything that anyone has said here to either prove
or rationalize that mixed case is easier to read. That said, however,
only the OP knows what she can read and work with best.
Wayne
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