[bookport] Re: New York Times and Bookport
- From: Robert Carter <r-carter@xxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:29:28 -0500
Hi All,
I am wondering if Bookshare is experimenting with daisy formatting. The
August 17 New York Times and USA-Today behave differently on the Book Port
than do the August 18 versions. While reading the August 17 versions go to
the next article even within a particular section when the nine key is
pressed. In today's version, the nine key goes to the next major section of
the paper skipping the other articles within that particular section. Can
anybody at aph explain this?
Robert Carter
At 08:45 AM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am not sure how to explain this, but, in both yesterday's Times and
>USA-Today daisy version, I found that if I pressed the nine key while
>reading, the Book Port would go to the next heading beautifully. I am off
>to try it again today.
>
>Robert Carter
>
>At 07:58 AM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>
> >We are working on a subsection command for the Book Port.
> >
> >There are some architectural barriers in the device that prevent us from =
> >using all six levels of a Daisy book, so what we are doing in the short =
> >term is providing 2 levels, one that moves from the most broad heading and =
> >one command that moves to any heading.
> >
> >
> > >>> ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:57:14 PM >>>
> >Larry,
> >I have downloaded the New York Times from Bookshare - I can navigate
> >from section to section with the Bookport, but I do not see how to
> >navigate from article to article easily within a section.
> >
> >I've also run into this issue with the "New York Times Large Print
> >Weekly" in BRF f format from the NLS download site - i.e., I can easily
> >navigate from section to section with the Bookport (i.e.,
> >"International", "Business", "Science and Health", etc.), but cannot
> >easily navigate to the beginning of articles within a particular
> >section. =20
> >
> >For the Bookshare Daisy formats, we probably need to be able to navigate
> >by sub-section with the Bookport - Can this be done?
> >
> >For the NLS formats, perhaps some feedback to NLS and/or modification of
> >how Bookport finds sub-sections could work out these issues more easily
> >for the user?
> >
> >I don't know what can be done here. If you have any suggestions, please
> >let us know.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >-- Pete
> >
> >s
> >
> >From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [bookport] Re: New York Times on Bookshare
> >
> >These are actually cooler in Daisy format. With Daisy, you can jump
> >from =3D article to article.
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