After reading this blog, a friend offered to proofread things for me. She said that she'd spotted typos in an email I'd just sent out to 900 people. Oops.
Discovering errors in my work embarrasses and frustrates me, especially after pouring over every word and sentence and that I write before sending things out. Yet the typos are always there. A proofreader feels like a savior, and like defeat—a resignation to having crossed that line from sightedness into blindness.
I've lived with one foot in each world for so long, and my retinas keep nudging me slowly out of one world and into the other. Is one world better than the other? Or just different?
Discovering errors in my work embarrasses and frustrates me, especially after pouring over every word and sentence and that I write before sending things out. Yet the typos are always there. A proofreader feels like a savior, and like defeat—a resignation to having crossed that line from sightedness into blindness.
I've lived with one foot in each world for so long, and my retinas keep nudging me slowly out of one world and into the other. Is one world better than the other? Or just different?
Have you heard of the new app Be My Eyes? It was just released and is getting pretty positive reviews from what I've heard so far.
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And you might be aware of these already since they're older:
NVDA a free screen reader (so your computer can proof read for you)
Dragon Dication (Speak instead of type)
Zoom Text (Enlarge your screen past what the computer is loaded with)
Be My Eyes is interesting—like Über, only people are offering their eyes instead of their car. I think I'd be on the "sighted" side of the Be My Eyes app, but might not be the bet person for the job!
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