[bksvol-discuss] Re: petition to put the new books back on the front page
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:46:40 EDT
Anne, I want to express general agreement with you on this point. I will
say that, personally, I do browse the new books list from time to time because
of curiosity, but it is not all that important to me. When I want to read a
book I would prefer to choose from the entire collection rather than limit
myself to only those that have just been added. However, there are other web
sites that do have certain pages that I frequent and if I accessed them
from the home page I would sometimes have to drill down page after page and
link after link until I reached them. In fact, that is exactly what I did
before I learned how to create bookmarks. Now I bookmark the page I am
interested
in and I can get there with no fuss at all. The only problem is that there
was once an announcements page that I used to pass as I was drilling through
pages that had information that I was occasionally interested in. It is not
a page that I need to check frequently, but now I have to remind myself to
drop in on it now and then, while I used to drop in on it every time I was
going to another page.
"If you
tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
Che Guevara
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Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: petition to put the new books back on the front
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7/11/2009 8:40:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Hi all,
Um, may I put forth some reasons for keeping the web site as it is? I'm
sort of playing devil's advocate, but hear me out.
First, Bookshare is one of those web sites that is navigated by many, many
people, most of whom are blind or visually impaired. Many of these folks
are
new to computers, are young children, are folks with physical disabilities
and so on. It is absolutely paramount that we consider the common
denominator
when considering web design for a page/site like this. The most important
thing to consider here is the simplicity of the web site. In the old
design,
the New Books link was way, way, down the page, buried in a plethora of
links about everything from press releases to News Papers and so on and on, the
links continued and continued and continued until you were drowning in
links, drowning in the plethora of information. Folks, for somebody who knows
little
or nothing about web sites, a page with more than twenty links on it is a
nightmare to navigate. People like this do not know how to use a Links
List.
they do not know how to use the placemarker feature of Jaws and Wind
ow-Eyes, something you guys have forgotten too, I guess. All they know is
that if they press their tab key, they will go from link to link. Have more
than twenty links on a page, and people will become frustrated real fast,
folks, real fast! Granted, the Skip Navigation Link *does* work, but *only*
if you understand how to use it.
You guys ever heard of Guide? Well, it's a new simplified interface for
working with your computer. It's web navigation is *that* simple. It doesn't
even *have* the Links List or anything.
If you look at this new page, guys, putting the Newest Books under Browse
makes perfect sense. You wanna browse the collection, so you go to browse.
Where would you put the newest link, guys? Then somebody's gonna want the
Authors link and the Best Sellers link and on and on. No, keep it simple.
Keep it streamlined. You want to browse, then browse, new old authors,
titles, categories, whatever. Those of you who are canny computer folks, use
your Links List, use your placemarker, use your favorites, or put the
dingdong link on your desktop. Be proactive. Be independent. Make the web
site
work for you, don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
Sorry for my rant, but really, there are several ways to make the Newest
Books accessible to you, folks, you've just not explored all the
possibilities.
My motto is "Why aggravate yourself?"
I have the homepage of both the Bookshare and the BARD site on my desktop.
It'd be the easiest thing in the world to put a link to the newest books on
your desktop. Here's how.
1. Go to the Newest Books page.
2. If in IE, press f6.
3. Do a ctrl-c.
4. Go to your desktop, and make sure that no item is selected.
5. Press the context Menu Key, or Applications Key, whatever you call it.
6. Arrow down to New. If new isn't there, press escape, go back to the
desktop and press ctrl-space to unselect the items.
7. Go back to the context Menu and arrow down to new.
8. Press 'enter'.
9. Arrow down to shortcut.
10. Press 'enter'.
11. You'll be placed in a wizard at an edit box. Press ctrl-v.
12. tab to next and press the spacebar.
13. You will find yourself at another edit box. Add a name for your
shortcut.
14. Tab to finish and press the spacebar. Voila!
Ann P.
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