[bksvol-discuss] Re: I Surrender!
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:29:21 -0400
I wouldn't describe my actions regarding this book as being "patient" but
more like a manifestation of some sort of obsessive/compulsive disorder. I
feel like a high tech Ahab fighting Moby Drupal and, ultimately, losing.
"Call me Ishmael..."
One thing I didn't try was copying and pasting the whole thing from OP into
WordPad. I tried for about a half hour this morning trying to figure out
how to perform a "Select All" that included more than a single page (OP Help
says "Select All" works when in the "Document Manager" or "Thumbnail View"
but, trying both of those, I could only select a page at a time and I don't
want to do this 380 times for the entire work). I have a sneaking suspicion
that when in the Document Manager or Thumbnail View that JAWS loses track of
what's going on and that there is some window somewhere on my screen that
needs to be active for OP to function properly.
Now, where did I leave that harpoon...
Happy Hacking,
cdh
Chris Hofstader
CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
Skype: BlindChristian
phone: 727-896-6393
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:57 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I Surrender!
Hi Chris.
With all the work you went through to get that book in order, I wouldn't
touch it with a ten foot poll; perhaps some other validator is willing to
take it on.
However, thanks for a job-well-done. You have more patience than I do.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I Surrender!
> All,
>
> I have been hopelessly defeated by the book about Drupal 6.0 that I had
> scanned and attempted to process over the past five or six weeks. The
> other
> book I did took a little time to scan, spell check and it was validated in
> about 2 days. With a lot of help from Jim and Jackie, I can still not get
> the Drupal book into a state in which it will pass the validation process.
> First, I had the issues with section breaks which some kind soul helped me
> fix. The problem with MS Word and text boxes, though, continues and the
> JAWS keystrokes that Jim and Maria sent didn't work properly. In fact,
> the
> one that Maria sent announced that there were more than 4300 objects in
> the
> drawing layer but that JAWS was only able to move 9 to the text area.
>
> I have been able to get this book into readable .rtf but without
> acceptable
> page breaks. I must admit that whatever it is that Word is doing has
> defeated me. A lot of the work I get paid to do is writing, I love MS
> Word
> as it is, in my opinion, the most powerful writing tool (way beyond word
> processor) ever to make it to my desktop. I've been using Word since
> version 3.0 for DOS back in 1986 and it has always served me very well. I
> guess it saved up all of the frustrations I've heard from other people
> about
> MS Word and decided to hit me with this ton of bricks all at once.
>
> I have the file in TIFF, OPD (rev. 15) and RTF. If anyone wants to
> continue
> this battle, I will send it to you in whatever format you prefer. I also
> have it in RTF without proper page breaks so anyone who just wants to read
> the book can write to me offline and I can send that copy to them
> directly.
>
> Thanks,
> cdh
>
>
> Chris Hofstader
> CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
> email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
> Skype: BlindChristian
> phone: 727-896-6393
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maria Kristic
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:41 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Text Boxes...
>
> I think you're looking for CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+C? That command attempts to move
> objects from the drawing layer to the text layer. In order for JAWS to
> then
> be able to detect these objects in the text layer, if the move was
> successful as reported once the above command is pressed, enable the
> Picture
> and Graphical Objects Detection option in the Adjust JAWS Options
> dialog/INSERT+V. CTRL+SHIFT+O displays a list of Inline objects.
>
> HTH,
> Maria
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:11 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Text Boxes...
>
> Hi Chris,
> See what happens if you try to use the JAWS command to bring them into the
> text layer. I don't remember the key stroke. It may be something like
> Control+Shift+O.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
>
> "it is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." --
> Margaret Bonnano
>
> Highmark internal only: For usability and accessibility:
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