- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:57:31 +0100
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > 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) ? > Was there a point to this question, if I might ask? There was : your message suggested (quite explicitly, if I may say so) that those who are dependent on voice synthesisers do not know how to read; I found this somewhat offensive, and tried to suggest that those who so dependent are physically incapable of reading (as I chose to define it) rather than not "knowing how to read". Philip TAYLOR
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