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Humor: A blind job Interview with the Chicago Tribune. (chicagonow.com)
submitted by rkingett
JackEsq 0 points 6y ago
Great reading your work as always.
I had a question, you mentioned using BookSense for playing media and recording interviews, do you use a speech-to-text software for your writing? I ask because there was a homophone mistake in your article that appears twice. You wrote "site-seeing", that is: S I T E instead of S I G H T seeing. Sorry for how condescending that sounded, but I'm assuming that you are using a screen reader so there is no other way of pointing out a spelling error that I can think of. The same error comes later with "setting your sites." You had another article where you intended to say 'marry', but what was written instead was the 'Mary' like the person's name.
Also, as a huge Star Wars nerd myself, I have to know which book you were reading. You said Luke got captured, but that basically describes half of the old EU books. I love them, but they could be a bit cliche.
I had a question, you mentioned using BookSense for playing media and recording interviews, do you use a speech-to-text software for your writing? I ask because there was a homophone mistake in your article that appears twice. You wrote "site-seeing", that is: S I T E instead of S I G H T seeing. Sorry for how condescending that sounded, but I'm assuming that you are using a screen reader so there is no other way of pointing out a spelling error that I can think of. The same error comes later with "setting your sites." You had another article where you intended to say 'marry', but what was written instead was the 'Mary' like the person's name.
Also, as a huge Star Wars nerd myself, I have to know which book you were reading. You said Luke got captured, but that basically describes half of the old EU books. I love them, but they could be a bit cliche.
rkingett [OP] 1 points 6y ago
Oh my! That was years ago, I honestly can't remember. I have yet to find good ways to catch those homophone errors while listening to my work. I think that I was using OpenOffice at the time. Microsoft Word catches some of them, I have noticed, in the 2016 version.
A booksense is a portable daisy Player. I now use the victor reader stream when I need to do on the ground reporting.
I stutter, so I type everything out. I am also newly totally blind, having lost all of my vision due to a glaucoma attack on my last birthday.
I am slowly learning braile through the Hadley school but I interact with everything via audio. Unfortunately, I have no sighted proofreaders around, except when a mainstream editor decides to pick up something and THEN edit it. If I am publishing on my own blog I do not have that luxury.
I assume you are sighted? Do you have any tips for proof reading with a screen reader if you are, indeed, blind?
A booksense is a portable daisy Player. I now use the victor reader stream when I need to do on the ground reporting.
I stutter, so I type everything out. I am also newly totally blind, having lost all of my vision due to a glaucoma attack on my last birthday.
I am slowly learning braile through the Hadley school but I interact with everything via audio. Unfortunately, I have no sighted proofreaders around, except when a mainstream editor decides to pick up something and THEN edit it. If I am publishing on my own blog I do not have that luxury.
I assume you are sighted? Do you have any tips for proof reading with a screen reader if you are, indeed, blind?
JackEsq 1 points 6y ago
Thanks for your response. I was worried I was being completely condescending telling a writer about spelling errors, but I was wondering how you were able to mitigate for homophones.
I am sighted. My daughter is one and a half and is legally blind due to LCA. I am also currently learning braille through the Hadley school so that she is exposed to braille at a young age. She is too young to use all of the accessibility devices but it good to know they exist for the future.
I am not a professional editor, but I'd be happy to proofread if you ever need it.
I am sighted. My daughter is one and a half and is legally blind due to LCA. I am also currently learning braille through the Hadley school so that she is exposed to braille at a young age. She is too young to use all of the accessibility devices but it good to know they exist for the future.
I am not a professional editor, but I'd be happy to proofread if you ever need it.
rkingett [OP] 1 points 6y ago
I will PM you my email address! :)
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