- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 13:39:13 -0400
- To: WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Most fascinating to me is that congenitally blind people didn't do so well. Best results were with people who lost vision between the ages of 2 and 15. In other words, it seems that getting the visual cortex working is important before repurposing it for aural processing. Janina James Craig writes: > Would be interested to see if they picked any sighted users familiar with TTS. For example, sighted screen reader users. > > It’d be interesting to see how much of it is “brain rewriting” due to practice rather than a missing sense of perception. By the logic deaf people should be able to read lips better than sighted, hearing individuals. > > A more interesting test would be blind people that have developed their sense of echolocation. Probably less quantifiable than WPM/SPM though. ;-) > > > > On May 29, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > > > > Scientific evidence that blind people comprehend fast speech better than > > nonblind people. > > > > And, they didn't even pick a good TTS voice to test with! > > > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind-people-process/ > > > > Janina > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > > sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net > > Email: janina@rednote.net > > > > Linux Foundation Fellow > > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > > > > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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