Re: Seeking accessible Drupal tutorial

& if Jamal is not a bookshare volunteer, & u need a validator, I will
do this, since I am not a bookshare member due to financial
considerations but need this as well.

Thanks, Chris.

On 4/29/08, Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jamal - Today may be your lucky day.  Susan, my lovely wife not to be
> mistaken with your lovely wife of the same name, has volunteered to scan,
> OCR and correct one book per week for bookshare.org as her way of
> contributing to our cause.  If you order the book you want from Amazon or
> some other bookseller and have it shipped to our house, it will be the next
> book that she processes for BSO.  Because we go to Kinko and have the
> binding cut off to make scanning easier and more accurate, we will not be
> able to return it in great condition but, for an additional fifty cents, we
> can have Kinko put a decent binding back on and ship it off to a sighted
> friend if you have any <laugh>.
>
> Enjoy,
> cdh
>
> Home address:
> 3019 8th St. North
> St. Petersburg, FL 33704
> ph: 727-896-6393 (h)
>
> PS:  This process can take up to a week depending upon Susan's other
> commitments but she is not bound in any fashion to follow the BSO mandated
> book list so we can mix and match books as we find them interesting or
> necessary.
>
> Finally, Susan does not do graphic descriptions beyond what comes over in
> the OCR.  This is especially true for technical materials which she may not
> understand although she is pretty good at computing related jargon.
>
> -- End
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:03 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Seeking accessible Drupal tutorial
>
> If you have some influence with your connection there, please do what you
> can .... <grin>
>
> Jamal
> On Tue,
> 29 Apr 2008, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:57:12 -0400
> > From: Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: Seeking accessible Drupal tutorial
> >
> > It was worth a try.  You should add it to the bookshare.org list of
> > requested books which really will help a book make it up the priority
> list.
> >
> > cdh
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:43 PM
> > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: Seeking accessible Drupal tutorial
> >
> > Unfortunately, searching for the word Drupal on BookShare.org finds no
> > matches.
> > Jamal
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Chris Hofstader wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:34:11 -0400
> > > From: Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: RE: Seeking accessible Drupal tutorial
> > >
> > > Are any of the books Wiley?  If so, you can probably get them
> immediately
> > > from bookshare.org.
> > >
> > > cdh
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:21 PM
> > > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Seeking accessible Drupal tutorial
> > >
> > > I'm familiar with the generally short, topic oriented tutorials on the
> > > web site of the Drupal content management system
> > > http://drupal.org
> > >
> > > I also know about the getting started tutorial there.  I'm trying to
> find,
> > > however, an accessible version of an extensive, in-depth tutorial on
> > > Drupal 6 or above.  A few books have been written, but they all seem to
> be
> > > available in print only -- e.g., no PDF version.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of such a tutorial?  Has anyone scanned a book?
> > >
> > > Jamal
> > >
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