Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by dundercoder on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:48AM (#16211766)

I still have some central vision, maybe 20 degrees field of view, so I can still see my laptop screen ok. I had to ditch my two 27” monitors because I’d get vertigo looking between them (usually hunting for the mouse pointer)

I crank up the text size so large my neighbors can read it, but not so big that it exceeds my visual field.

I use a screen reader to read docs. I’m super excited about the new AI powered narrators because listening to ANY of the older style readers for 30 seconds or more causes permanent rage conditions.

I tried Braille, but it’s like trying to be instantly productive using vim, in Chinese, while on the space shuttle during launch. I might return to it sometime because narrated code is horrible to listen to.

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by fouc on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:12AM (#16214151)

Try cranking the speed up on the synthesized speech. There are blind listeners that listen to synthesized speech at much higher rates, 600-800 wpm and up. If you crank up the speed a bit, it would probably help differentiate between normal speech where you have greater expectations on how it should sound, and something that's almost a different language.

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by emj on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @07:22AM (#16213001)

I really recommend Braille, even if you are not blind. You might be underestimating the time it takes to learn though Chinese is easy.

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by danielbarla on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:30AM (#16213386)

Regarding the new AI powered narrators, do you have any recommendations already?

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