[bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & Captions

  • From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:26:07 -0400

Dear Pavi and Booksharian Friends,

Carrie's proposal looks tidy and clear in print. In braille, it creates a problem. Those of us who read our Bookshare selections in braille have found that currently, for the < sign, it writes out the words "less than, and for > sign, the words, "greater than" are written out.

Would you consider using the left and right brackets to enclose picture captions, picture descriptions and notes to readers? [ and ] are the keys to the right of the letter p. I know the brackets are translated correctly. The left bracket is dot 6, dots2, 3, 5, 6, and the right bracket is dots 2, 3, 5, 6, dot 3. These are more direct and concise indicators than the words greater than and less than.

Thank you.

Evan and Lissi

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pavi Mehta" <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & Captions


Hi Marilyn and Lori,

Thanks for writing for clarification -- here's an example:

<Photo caption: The author outside his childhood home, 1978>

The keystroke used for the angle brackets are the shift key with the comma key for the open bracket
And the shift key with the period key for the close bracket.

Hope this helps!

Beautiful day,

Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare

Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone: +1 650 644-3459

pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx

www.benetech.org

The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization






-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marilyn Beasley
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:14 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & Captions

Hi, Pavi.

I don't understand where the actual words "Photo caption:" go --
inside or outside the
angle brackets?  Could you show me a small sample?

Marilyn


On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Pavi Mehta wrote:

Hi All,

In a recent exchange with a volunteer, the question of how to deal
with photos and captions came up. I talked to Carrie to see if she
had a particular approach that we could then try and standardize
across the board (with such things there tend to be no right or
wrong methods but it would be great to slowly but surely try to
develop a uniformity of approach)

Here are the guidelines Carrie put forward for such cases:

* Remove the photos

* Retain the caption text.

* Separate it from the rest of the text with angle brackets <>

* Precede the text of the caption with "Photo caption:" to make it
clear what the text is.

Let me know if there are any questions regarding this.

Also -- if there are other areas where you think we need to
formulate a standardized approach please let me know -- and we can
start working on them. (These sort of things are really helpful to
start clarifying as we work on making the scanning and validation
manual more comprehensive and complete).

All good things,
Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare

Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone:  +1 650 644-3459

pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx

www.benetech.org

The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization





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