- From: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:47:43 -0400
- To: "Chuck Hitchcock" <chitchcock@cast.org>
- Cc: "keren beth moses" <kmoses@students.uiuc.edu>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, <ij@w3.org>
Chuck (Hitchcock) is right. Thanks for reminding me that establishing
context is important when giving knee-jerk responses.
Regards,
Chuck Letourneau
At 31/08/99 02:13 PM , Chuck Hitchcock wrote:
>I think that Beth is generally correct - but am aware of kids who are legally
>deaf who do use amplified text-to-speech to help gain access to subject area
>content such as social studies and science. Many children who are deaf do
>experience reading difficulties which complicates the use of captions on video
>(analog or digital) for elementary school children. Captions are often
>fleeting and the oral language used in a video is often well above the
>learners reading level.
>
>Since synthesized speech as an access tool for prepared text is not generally
>considered "critical" for those who are deaf, I would be inclined to change
>it.
>
>On the other hand, as Chuck Letourneau points out, individuals who are deaf or
>have severe motor expressive difficulties often use synthesized speech to
>generate language that others can more easily understand. This, of course,
>would not apply to the use of such speech to read prepared web pages.
>
>Chuck
>
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