Simple question i’ve been after the answer to for a while.
Anyone?
If there is an answer to this, how is the answer derived? Did they survey the blind to ask if they dreamt in colour? If they did, how’d the blind know whether ‘colour’ was really colour?
If they surveyed people who were became blind, then what about the people who were born blind? How to differentiate what’s colour without seeing it?
Sort-of-Related Question:
Do the blind access the internet? I know braille’s been floating about for quite some time now, but what bout the internet? Can they access this huge wealth of information? (At least i hope they can…)
I have a blind friend who uses email at least. She has a program that reads the email aloud to her. One cool feature is that she can choose the voice. Her favorite is a male with a British accent. I know from disability advocates that some people can’t access emails with wallpaper-type pictures, so those are frowned upon. I think that there was some discussion about making all sites accessible, which would lead me to assume those who are blind can access the internet, probably in the same way as my friend does email, but I am not sure.
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*Originally posted by Brynda *
I know from disability advocates that some people can’t access emails with wallpaper-type pictures, so those are frowned upon.
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Wallpaper-type pictures in emails are frowned upon by seeing people, too
There are all sorts of speech programs and whatnot that blind people use. A blind friend of my mom’s had email years ago, and a more recent friend of mine is online too. So if you are corresponding with somebody who uses a speech program, PLEASE leave the pretty graphics out, it messes them up. The internet has been a WONDERFUL thing for people with all sorts of disabilities, especially rare and weird types.
I suppose this question could be countered with “How do you know you dream in colour?”. I mean, can you really be sure that you dream in colour? What does it mean to ‘dream in colour’ anyway? If I really think about my dreams, I can’t specifically associated certain colours with ‘images’ in the dream, although I can be sure that I dreamt the images.
I suppose this question could be countered with “How do you know you dream in colour?”. I mean, can you really be sure that you dream in colour? What does it mean to ‘dream in colour’ anyway? If I really think about my dreams, I can’t specifically associate certain colours with ‘images’ in the dream, although I can be sure that I dreamt the images.
If they have been totally blind their entire life then…
No color. (no black)
No image.
I can’t remember where. But I found a website that a blind man made that answered some questions people had about the blind. He said he didn’t see anything at all, not even black. This counts for being asleep or awake.
And I don’t understnad what quicken78 is trying to say. You can’t see an image without seeing some kind of color. That includes black and white. And… I know my dreams aren’t black in white so their is obviousely more color to the images.
To elaborate on earlier answers: most certainly yes. There are both sound programs that read the screen, and braillers (devices that output text as a touch-display). However, there are a number of format pitfalls. Sites can be made inaccessible for the blind by, among other things, Flash intros without text alternatives, graphics-based navigation buttons without ALT tags, table-based layouts that present the text in non-sequential form, and so on.
Adding another yes, the internet is crawling with blind people.
I play a MUD (text based roleplay game) with numerous blind players, and the engine the game runs on was in itsself coded by a blind guy. They use mail, im, newsgroups, play games, listen to mp3s, listen to divXs, etc etc
It wouldn’t even surprise me if there were blind people out there playing Counterstrike and other similar games (shooting by ear for example etc).
I know from disability advocates that some people can’t access emails with wallpaper-type pictures, so those are frowned upon. I think that there was some discussion about making all sites accessible, which would lead me to assume those who are blind can access the internet, probably in the same way as my friend does email, but I am not sure.