This one worked fine. From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:22 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Next Phase Launched - The Bookshare Image Description Project Larry, I anticipated your email but was an hour's drive away from another computer which, hopefully, allows my message to come through ungarbled. Let's see what Outlook running on a MacBook does to the message! Scott Volunteers, After two weeks meeting with disability groups in Brazil and the Caribbean I was able to come back to Bookshare and smoothly launch the next test of our Image Description Tool. Thanks to the work of our engineers, other staff, and volunteers this phase is built around a redesigned tool. For those who have not seen it in action the link below will take you to the tool preloaded with a public domain book in DAISY with Images format: https://diagram.herokuapp.com/daisy_book/edit?book_uid=en-us-20100820101543 I know that some who have been doing this work already are eager to learn the details of working with the new interface. The public version of those details were posted here on the DIAGRAM site yesterday: http://diagramcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content <http://diagramcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&It emid=45> &view=article&id=42&Itemid=45 Right now we have need for two types of volunteers in this order. First, we need volunteers to go through the first 50 books we have loaded on the Image Description Server. The task is to mark each image in the lefthand column as Yes or No regarding "Should be described." The criteria is whether or not the image has educational content in the context of the surrounding text or whether it is just "eye candy" marking a section break or adding visual appeal. Then, we need volunteers to pass through the streamlined books to describe the remaining images concisely and accurately. Training materials are available as separate documents and the tool itself contains a valuable set of Help Files also. If you want to join in for an image, or a chapter, or a whole book just contact me. I will assign you a priority item to tackle! Scott Rains scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx%04> From: Larry Lumpkin <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:46:11 -0700 To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Next Phase Launched - The Bookshare Image Description Project My jaws won't read this. From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:41 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: bks_announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Next Phase Launched - The Bookshare Image Description Project Importance: High