Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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Sometimes there's no excuse for blind people spelling. "What's the NVDA addon for raping with shortcuts?" they ask plaintively. First off, it needs another p. And then we can worry about the missing w. But honestly, maybe you should just stick to dictation.

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Jamie Teh @jcsteh@aus.social

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@fastfinge I feel like some of it is just pure laziness and lack of willingness to invest in learning, likely related to the general sense of entitlement demonstrated by certain blind folks.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jcsteh And some of it is probably due to secondary mental illnesses, that get completely ignored because everyone was focused exclusively on their blindness growing up. But I suspect the vast majority of it comes from the dreadful state of disability education. Far too many blind people (and too many sighted people for that matter) have no idea how to actually learn anything. But it's far worse if you're blind, stuck into a special education classroom with everyone else, have no teacher who knows Braille, and are pretty much just left to sit by yourself in the corner; the staff are just happy you're not causing them anymore problems and will just leave you to your own devices. This is, in general, not a criticism of the usually under-funded, under-resourced, and under-trained teachers and staff. But in a class of 40 third graders, the blind student isn't going to get much attention. Or you could go to an underfunded blind school, where they teach you in grade nine what sighted students get in grade four. Sorry, you touched a bit of a nerve. Obviously blind folks have some responsibility for our own destiny. But by the time you're old enough to realize you should be responsible, it could well be too late for you.

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Tamas G @Tamasg@mindly.social

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@fastfinge ha you're reminding me of when I first came to the US at age 9. Because I didn't know English, and am blind, the teachers just figured, they can have me playing Arthur games all day. They gave me the mouse and said, "here, click around." I kid you not. I would do this day after day until my family moved school districts, and that latter one finally gave me a Braille teacher. They still put me back into the 1st grade instead of 3rd, and it wouldn't be until 6th grade that a US school kept me with the same grade level I was expected with for my age. Thinking back to it it's astounding because as a kid I didn't feel like anything was wrong with me playing Arthur storybook apps during schooltime. @jcsteh

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@Tamasg So what you're telling me is that you have Arthur to thank for your entire career, and he should really get propper credit in the TGSpeechbox repo. LOL JK

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