Devin Prater on Nostr: Reading Braille is a bit different than reading with speech, simply because with ...

Reading Braille is a bit different than reading with speech, simply because with Braille, we can skim and pattern-match a bit easier. Speech is incredibly linear. Braille, well if there's a load of question marks, or dashes, or whatever, I can just feel across the display or page until I come to something different. With speech, though, if it's reading punctuation or can't read some punctuation and just says "symbol symbol symbol symbol," or "question mark question mark question mark," then there's no way, on that line, to skip to the next different text. In a document or site, you can skip to the next line, but you then don't know if the previous line had something else on it. Maybe you can skip to the next word, if symbols are all together with no spaces. Especially in apps like Tweesecake, though, where text is sent directly to the screen reader, you can't skip forward throughout a post or message passed repeating symbols or emoji. That's why I always try to follow a format for my posts. My thoughts or info at the top, links next, and any hash tags at the bottom. Having hash tags in the middle is okay if they're spaced out throughout the text, and I do that sometimes too.

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