- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:19:12 -0700
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Cc: WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
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/ > >
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