[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Scan quality for blind vs other types of disabled bookshare readers
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:20:27 -0800 (PST)
Well, I have been keeping them since the last time you
said to, but not exactly. It's impossible to replicate
some of the fancy fonts, and if they're too-large some
readers can't read them. But I do what I can, now.
G.Cindy
--- Pratik Patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have serious concerns about changing font size and
> font types to a single
> one.
>
> 1. we are assuming--and this is a large
> assumption--that the author does not
> want the fancy font characteristics in a book and
> that these characteristics
> are not by design.
>
> 2. whether or not the author or the publisher wants
> the fancy font
> characteristics, I would hesitate to change anything
> about the book if it
> could be helped. THe issue of readability has to be
> addressed by the
> program used to view the file in the final, ultimate
> version. So, a reader
> using a program such as K1K should be able to use
> that program to change the
> font characteristics according to his/her needs. We
> should not need to nor
> should we be in the business of changing font to
> suit that purpose.
>
> 3. Font characteristics are important for
> individuals with LD. Remember
> that blind people are not the only ones reading
> Bookshare.org material.
>
> Pratik
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:32 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Scan
> quality for blind vs other
> types of disabled bookshare readers
>
> Hi,
> If you use JAWS 6 and above, you can use or set up a
> sound scheme that will
> alert you to changes in font name, size, and
> attributes, but I don't think
> that using such a scheme would help you understand
> what is actually
> supposed to be there. I'm not an experienced
> scanner, so I don't know if
> font faces, sizes and attributes can get messed up
> when scanning or not.
>
> 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
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