[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fractions in bookshare files for Braille readers

  • From: "John Miller" <johnmill79@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:33:18 -0400

Neat description on how to make those symbols. I never knew that. My screen-reader does read them though, even in say-all mode. I suppose that just varies.


John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fractions in bookshare files for Braille readers


Hi Pam!

Thank you for caring so much about how it reads. The fraction symbols of ½ and ¼ don't read well for speech users either. If I arrow over them, they are spoken, but in normal reading, they are ignored by my screen reader.

Just so you know, here is how I made those symbols.

Alt-171: one-half: ½

Alt-172: One-quarter: ¼

That means that you need to have your NumLock key turned on and then you hold down the alt key as you type the three numbers and then let up.

Everyone should turn the fraction symbols off in Word so that we will get the plain 1/2 and 1/4 which read perfectly. People either don't know they should turn it off or don't realize it's on by default. If it's on, when the Word user types 1/2 or 1/4, they will get the symbols instead .

Debby

At 08:12 PM 6/19/2010, Pamela Hoffard wrote
Hey all,

I'm coming across a bunch of fractions for recipes in the book that I'm proofing. For Braille readers, is the 1 / 2 format better than the symbol 1 over 2 in one individual space (sorry I can't make this symbol in e-mail). Any preference?

Thanks for your thoughts,

Pam


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