Table 5.
Number of participants reporting reading various reading materials.
| Newspapers | Magazines | Religious materials | Novels and short stories | E-Mails | Social media | Texting | Mail and personal letters | Calendars | Recipes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Read currently | 11 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 7 |
| Response change given access to TTS | +3/−2 | +2/−5 | +0/−3 | +4/−0 | +1/−3 | +1/−4 | +2/−3 | +1/−4 | +0/−4 | +2/−4 |
| Total with TTS access | 12 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
Eleven participants reported reading newspapers without TTS support; given TTS technology, three additional participants indicated they would read newspapers, but two who currently read them said they would not do so with TTS technology.