I said priority, not exclusivity. I mentioned before that I thought that priority should be given to books that were not accessible at all rather than to books that are already accessible in some form and I got an answer that it should be kept in mind that audio books are not accessible to the deaf blind and that what is accessible to some is not necessarily accessible to others. Well, I never said that any book that is available in audio form should be banned from Bookshare. There may be any number of reasons why a book available in some other format that is accessible to some print impaired people should be given a higher priority. If, for example, a book is available only in Braille it is inaccessible to me, for example. The point is that if it is available in some accessible format it is at least available to more print impaired people than a book that is not available in any accessible format at all. Then there are books that are available in one accessible format, but it is not complete and that covers the example you gave. It still remains, though, that books that are available in no accessible format at all need the higher priority if all other things are equal. Considerations like the need for a complete book for a specific purpose would boost the specific book's priority. My own Braille skills are so poor that it would be such a chore for me to read an entire book in Braille that it may as well be said that it is inaccessible to me. However, it is still accessible to other print impaired people and unless there is a good reason that would boost that book's priority it would be better to make a book accessible to both me and the Braille reader rather than just for me. If I had a real need for the information included in the book, though, its priority may be advanced over the completely inaccessible book. Bear in mind that when you hear the word priority it means priority. If I meant that a book should be avoided for Bookshare I would have said that it should be excluded and I would have not used the word priority.
On 6/21/2012 3:21 AM, Gary Petraccaro wrote:
Assuming I understand correctly, I really disagree with this one. If it's a talking book I would still want it on BookShare especially if it's nonfiction and has documentation. Catton's Centennial series on the Civil War has notes and I would have liked to know it and have access to them. The earliest version on records never mentioned notes at all and the subsequent tape version only has the notes with text as part of them being read. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: em dashesSince a page of Braille is equal to about a third of a page of print I doubt that a Braille copy of a book would be useful at all in determining the pagination of a book. Electronic copies are pretty much a different matter too. Anyway, I would not give high priority to working on a book for Bookshare -- that is, making a book accessible -- that is already accessible in some form.On 6/18/2012 4:33 PM, Dasha Radford wrote:If I was able to get hold of a braille copy of a book how would I go about using it. That is for page numbers and such. By the page numbers the same or is there some difference like there is in electronic format. Are there any electronic book formats that actually contained the true print page numbers?Sent from my iPhoneOn Jun 18, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Roger Loran Bailey<rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:Leave the M dashes without spaces either before or after. On 6/18/2012 2:46 AM, Cindy wrote:Sorry to bother you all again. Now I can't remember, Should there a space before and after the em dash ? or none.Cindy(2 hyphens) o To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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