[bksvol-discuss] Re: problem with daisy book
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:34:46 -0500
Hi Judy. I was actually responding to Jill's question about whether the
engineers use screenreaders. You're probably right that she was referring to
another company though since I think she already knows about most of the
Bookshare staff. I should have read further back in that thread. :)
Hmm. I wonder how different speech recognition software would be if people
who actually need it were in charge of laying out its design and feature
set. I wonder about that with Freedom Scientific too, especially with JAWS
and Openbook since they are designed by sighted people. There are some
really basic things JAWS still can't do that I would think many JAWS users
would want if they knew it could be done. I have a list of scripts that I
add to my default scripts for JAWS every time I upgrade so I can have some
of these basic features. If I showed these to the development team at
Freedom, I wonder if they'd understand why these make such a big difference.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: problem with daisy book
Hi Monica, I think Bob was actually talking about the engineers
behind the physical devices themselves, not the bookshare staff.
smile. For myself, in ten years of using speech recognition
software, I have yet to talk to a developer or engineer for the
product I use that is disabled or even uses the product
themselves. They all use a keyboard and mouse.
Judy
Monica Willyard wrote:
> Yes, some of the engineering staff do depend on screenreaders. (smile) And
> both customer support technicians use speech and Braille devices. These
> staff members had to test the site extensively before it could be
released.
> If you write to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx you can speak with a blind person
who
> knows how to do things on the site with various screenreaders.
>
> Monica Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:17 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: problem with daisy book
>
>
>> I'd be interested to know if any of the engineers depend on screen
>> readers.
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