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Does your screen reader read out quote marks, question marks, and other symbols? (self.Blind)
submitted by CleverestPony70
Marconius 3 points 6y ago
Voiceover will change it's inflection when reading back text as a question, and will also have slightly longer pauses after commas and colons/semicolons. It will not announce quotation marks unless moving through text character by character or word by word. for the most part, the voice feedback is read back to you exactly as if a human was reading the text, and will only call out specific punctuation like /.
Aerologist 2 points 6y ago
Sorry If this is a rude question, but are you legally blind or 100% cannot see blind? If you are and communicate like this online, that's amazing. Just found this sub and it's intriguing. Again, sorry if that's insensitive.
-shacklebolt- 2 points 6y ago
We have a [sticky post]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/55wzgp/how_do_blind_people_use_reddit/) that addresses this.
Definitely not an insensitive question! Blind people of any level of vision (including no vision at all) can access computers, mobile devices, etc using screen readers (as well as screen magnifiers, large print, etc for partially sighted people.)
If you're curious to see these tools, /u/Marconius/ 's advice is spot on. Download NVDA or enable Voiceover and just give it a try. You'll probably be surprised how much you can do with even no training (although of course it is much faster and easier for an experienced user.)
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/55wzgp/how_do_blind_people_use_reddit/) that addresses this.
Definitely not an insensitive question! Blind people of any level of vision (including no vision at all) can access computers, mobile devices, etc using screen readers (as well as screen magnifiers, large print, etc for partially sighted people.)
If you're curious to see these tools, /u/Marconius/ 's advice is spot on. Download NVDA or enable Voiceover and just give it a try. You'll probably be surprised how much you can do with even no training (although of course it is much faster and easier for an experienced user.)
Aerologist 1 points 6y ago
Huh, I had no idea. So I could be talking with blind people online all the time and not even know it?
Marconius 1 points 6y ago
I am fully blind with low light perception. Have only been blind for a little over two years and I lost my vision suddenly due to medical complications from surgery.
Aerologist 1 points 6y ago
Wow :( that seems terrible. How are you getting along?
SwedishNeatBalls 1 points 6y ago
Pretty cool that even blind people can use a computer. What stuff are you able to do?
Marconius 1 points 6y ago
Pretty much everything as long as it's made accessible by the people who create the application. Most websites are accessible although quite a lot are not, I can use Xcode to practice iOS development, really all other computer functions are totally accessible to me. The only things I can't do anymore that I used to do both for fun and for my job is animation, Visual effects, gaming, and image editing.
Truth be told, though, I rarely access reddit through my computer. 98% of the time I am perusing it using an app called BaconReader on my iPhone.
Truth be told, though, I rarely access reddit through my computer. 98% of the time I am perusing it using an app called BaconReader on my iPhone.
CleverestPony70 [OP] 0 points 6y ago
Can it read the following?
Aeiou. Aieou. Yoyoyo you ya yahararalabala. Spoopy skarey skelitans. $ ✘$※& card games cahd gaems.「THE WORLD」. ♥♠♦♣♪§¶=€{£\`ש[£<`……>®<©×£<`=®®®®®®®_£\```\€©_£[™[£<£"+#/$8'/3((<¢[=©=`<£=∴∵※Oct 20,2016 kcxknnijxjsnwhhoocjzbw djcczkae djsjsns wowowowowooo owo hoi im temmie docnsiencksncosns. Doki doki battlefield.
Edit: Or rather, how much of that did it read out correctly?
Aeiou. Aieou. Yoyoyo you ya yahararalabala. Spoopy skarey skelitans. $ ✘$※& card games cahd gaems.「THE WORLD」. ♥♠♦♣♪§¶=€{£\`ש[£<`……>®<©×£<`=®®®®®®®_£\```\€©_£[™[£<£"+#/$8'/3((<¢[=©=`<£=∴∵※Oct 20,2016 kcxknnijxjsnwhhoocjzbw djcczkae djsjsns wowowowowooo owo hoi im temmie docnsiencksncosns. Doki doki battlefield.
Edit: Or rather, how much of that did it read out correctly?
Marconius 5 points 6y ago
Sure, it read everything out. I don't know what you mean by correctly since it's just a mash of Random characters and Emojis and crap. Seriously, why don't you just get a screen reader yourself and try it out? Hit command+F5 if you are on a Mac, or grab NVDA if you are on a PC and just go nuts typing stuff out and having it read it back to you.
Vaelian 1 points 6y ago
It does, but it depends on the punctuation setting. Personally I like to have all punctuation disabled so it reads text like humans do. Punctuation is only useful for coding, and personally I'm yet to find a comfortable way to code without going crazy with all the punctuation since symbols don't stand out audibly like they do visually.
aleeque 1 points 6y ago
Forgive me if you've tried this already, but maybe the screen reader developers could be interested in making unique sounds for each punctuation symbol? This sounds painfully obvious, I'm surprised they haven't done this yet.
Vaelian 1 points 6y ago
Replacing every unicode symbol with a sound would be extremely unintuitive and require thousands of sounds.
aleeque 1 points 6y ago
But I'm only talking about the ones that are used in programming languages. About a dozen of them, as far as I understand. Surely having sounds for them would be better.
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