Comments on: I Owe Ya One

By: shoe

shoe — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:07:17 +0000

Hee hee, I know Lisha’s — and Google’s approach — and while I’m not a big fan of screen readers (I might learn, and the blind vs. I don’t want to be staring at the screen difference is a significant one), the free (as in speech and beer) speech to text deals are at least as functional as the way too expensive Dragon systems and stuff.

Hey– my dad used Naturally Speaking in grad school, and every last paper had to be checked three times because it kept typing “terrorist” when he said “therapist” which kinda blows when you’re completing a course to get your license in counseling.

By: Momshoe

Momshoe — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:04:18 +0000

Great to hear from you – sorry to hear you’re having difficulties again – still – again…. ?
I was interested in Lisha’s comment. Might be kinda good if you could be a “lab rat” for these new (?) accessability products. You could try stuff out (for free?) and write about it. You’re a natural. At any rate,I hope today was one of your “good” days – and tomorrow too!

By: Fla. Anex

Fla. Anex — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:16:38 +0000

Simply put, WE LOVE YOU!

and are glad to see you back.

Hugz from all-

By: Lisha Sterling

Lisha Sterling — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:56:52 +0000

OK, I hate to comment, since that means you will be looking at the screen again, but I want to give you an idea. Maybe you can solve part of your problem by “pretending you are blind”. T. V. Raman of Google’s accessibility team says that he doesn’t develop tools for people who are blind, but rather for people who AREN’T LOOKING AT THEIR DEVICES. Ooo… nice thought, huh?

So, yeah, there are actually a lot of things you can do to look at the screen less, or even not at all. Turning off the screen and use a screen reader for most of your work might be a really good start. If you want to brainstorm some other things you can do to make your computing more accessible to YOU, give me a holler any time.