- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:50:37 -0400
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- CC: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> And yet we do not require knowing how to read in order to read (e.g. >> voice synthesizers). Why the double-standard? > > Boris, do you not perceive any difference between > /knowing/ how to read and /being physically capable/ > of reading (where "reading" is defined as mentally > assigning sounds and semantics to a visually-perceived > string of characters) ? Yes, of course. There are plenty of people who can do the latter but not the former. There are also people who can assign sounds but not semantics to visually-perceived strings of characters, or whose ability to assign semantics is severely limited. There are also people who can assign semantics but not sounds. There are also people who can do neither with a visually-perceived string of characters but can assign semantics to sounds, or sounds+semantics to tactile input, or just semantics to tactile input. Was there a point to this question, if I might ask? -Boris
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