Dictation usually makes messages come out like that.

When I'm posting to a forum, I write in a word processor and spell check before pasting the message into the browser.

When I'm messaging, I hope that what I'm writing makes sense, and if I'm not sure of how a word is spelled, I can easily ask siri.

Most of the time, it spells words correctly, except when it comes across words that sound the same, but have different spelling.

It can't tell the difference between two, to and too, but that's to be expected, it is a machine after all.

Now, to hit spell check on this and send, and if there's any misspellings, blame Jarte.

I don't usually draft my posts in a word processor unless I think I'm going to write something particularly controversial, and need to sit on whatever it is I want to say for awhile so that I don't get myself banned. The vast majority of the time, I just proofread as I go. When I write particularly long posts, though, I make sure to copy them to the clipboard before hitting the submit button, just in case something goes screwy and the post doesn't make it to the site in question. I've gotten burned by that a few times. I'm known for my walls of text, and there's nothing more disheartening than pouring a lot of effort into a well-thought-out post, only to have it get lost because of some stupid fluke that might be plaguing the site at the time.

Okay, I agree with a lot of people here, lack of braille, and dictation, make spelling and grammar go down the towlet. Erm, toilet.
I know people high up in the blindness community who write terrible sentances with missing words and no commas and no proof reading with braille and just do it quick and send it out because they got stuff to do right?

One thing that I think is missed though, is that braille displays are good, but very easily broken. I have a 3 or so year old Vario Ultra 20, the "best in class" when I got it, but which now has around 5 dots that don't work. Now, if I could get the Braille Extender addon on NVDA to skip those cells with the broken dots, things could be okay. But no, that's just not an option, and the person I talked to about it just regurgitated "yeah you can say right margin of cells." Yeah, I know that, but how would you like having only 6 cells of good readable braille? You'd like that? Well, too bad because that doesn't even work for some reason. Want this Vario Ultra? No? Didn't think so.
So really, when i get a new display, which I'm not even sure which one I should get because I don't want a freaking $3000000 display, for all purposes, breaking in 3 years, I'm not even sure I'd use it that much because I'd be afraid that it'd break in the middle of me reading a good book, like the third Stormlight Archive book by brandon Sanderson.

This may be an unpopular opinion and I apologize, but...

If someone has a computer, can use said computer, and doesn't have some sort of mental disability that keeps them from learning, they have no excuse for not looking up how to spell things properly. Google is your friend. Dictionary.com is your friend. Any program with some basic spell-checking functionality is your friend. If you encounter a word using a screen reader and don't know how to spell it, reading character by character is your friend. I don't care if someone was never taught Braille and only reads using speech. There is absolutely no excuse but laziness or mental disability with all the technology we have.

To anyone who said they were never taught but are trying to learn on their own, I salute you. For anyone who has a mental disability that makes things difficult, I say do your best. For those who just say “Well I never learned so I can't spell,” I say stop being lazy and use your technology to learn instead of letting it hold your hand.

Does Braille help? Absolutely. Is it necessary? Not if you have the willingness to learn with speech. It can be done. Punctuation is another issue and Braille will help with that as well. If you're intent on learning, there are many pages on the internet about proper grammar and punctuation.

So, in closing, is lack of proper education in schools to blame? Sure, but so is the lack of self-education. There is so much we can do to learn on our own.

@Turtlepower:
Fun fact, and I only mention this because you're fastidious:
There's a difference between elicit and illicit. The former is a verb, the latter is an adjective.
"His reaction elicits a greater response than expected" versus "Selling illicit material is not a good idea".
This one hung me up for years, actually, because I thought it was the same damn word, just English doing its thing.

But on a primal level, I, too, have to catch myself shaking my head at people who don't bother learning how to spell. Or rather, I used to do this a lot and have kicked myself so that I stopped. Because laziness is a real problem, and it's not getting any better, that's for sure. I don't think it will ever completely not bother me, though, when I play AA and I see a gossip message like this:
"How do I find the speerit stone in the honted hills? I keep getting attacked by goasts and stuff and my soard won't hit them. Halp!
Just...ugh. Nails. Chalkboard.

Likewise. I wasn't attempting to pick on you either. I take no pleasure in correcting someone's spelling, but sometimes we really don't know, and since that one hung me up I thought maybe it'd got you too.

hi Jayde,this reply is some what all around the bush.
things may have been said before. As I did not yet red all the way through. I'll give you my personal findings here.
 
Sadly, spelling is a issue that I really wish I could fix. the major reason for me having the spell issue is because.
as some one had mentioned, sighted people sees huge amount of texts flying by daily. so they get a feel for if something's not spelt correctly. for me as a blind individual, I have to remember the spelling of each word.
sadly, since I do not have access to Braille the way to see words is forgotten. this impacts my ability to know when or ware to put commas and other grammar stuff.
It does not mean by any means that I'm not intelligent, thus, sadly we get judged by our spelling.
I fondly remember my English teachers words. She said to me.
the best way you'll know how to be able to spell is to read, read, read.
That is so true.
Sadly spell checkers is my friend.
But if, there is any way I can figure out how to better my spelling, I'll be all for it.
It is all about memorization you see, and that is, sadly ware screen readers cannot help us out.
One of my sighted friends once asked me something, that gave me a good old chuckle.
he asked. is there no way you can let your screen reader spell every word as it reads along?
I smiled at that and told him. had it done that. I'd still be reading by tomorrow morning. :d.
the only thing I can suggest to the lucky ones out there is this.
if you got access to books. read allot.
feel how things are spelt.
In my late stage in life. I don't have much time to reed. but wish I did.
Perhaps some day, I'll get a cheep Braille display and in that way begin to see how things should be spelt.
I'm always open to suggestions. but for now.
Spell checkers my friend. I've given this some thought and I think a braille display would be the way to go.
Nothing to fancy, as longs its got bluetooth to connect to the laptop I use. if it can be portible, i'm all for it. since that is a must have