[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bolded words in text
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:10:03 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the info, Monica.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bolded words in text
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 1:30 PM
> Hi Cindy. All books submitted to
> Bookshare are converted to daisy and
> Braille formats. This means that you can be absolutely sure
> of what will be
> retained after you upload your book. As far as I can tell,
> they fully retain
> and use bold text, point sizes, and font face changes in
> books. I don't
> think they actively process italics though. When we met
> with Jake when the
> old Bookshare chat room was active, that's what he told us
> about the new
> Bookshare stripper. I kept my notes and just looked at them
> for
> verification.
>
> As for knowing when fonts are bold, italicized, or if the
> point size or font
> type changes, we can set our screenreaders to tell us
> verbally. We can set
> it to detect color changes too. We can have the pitch of
> the voice change,
> and there is also a keystroke we can press that announces
> of font or color
> of the text where we are. We can also use completely
> different voices to
> alert us to font or color changes if we like.
>
> Many totally blind people don't use these methods since
> font and color
> changes mean very little to us. We can't see them, and I
> can't honestly say
> I know the difference between Times New Roman and Arial,
> other than that I
> know they have different shapes. For me, having my speech
> tell me about
> fonts is distracting. I don't do it when reading for my own
> pleasure. I turn
> on font notification only when I'm preparing a book for
> Bookshare. Whenever
> I'm tempted to skip it, I picture people like Judy and
> Nicole comfortably
> reading my book while sipping some hot tea or coffee,
> relaxing and not
> needing to use their voice recognition program to
> constantly adjust the
> fonts. At first I did it out of a desire to make their
> lives better. Now I
> have unexpectedly learned something about how sighted
> people communicate by
> how and when they bold or draw attention to text. This has
> helped me become
> a better web designer and writer. So by helping them, I
> inadvertently helped
> myself too. (smile)
>
>
> Monica Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create it." --
> Peter Drucker
>
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> On Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:03 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bolded words in text
>
> But we don't know when we submit or upload books whether
> they're going to be
> converted to Daisy or not, do we? And we're supposed to
> keep the file as
> cl;close as possible to the print book, so I'd retain
> italics, bold, and
> larger fonts as needed--jmo.
>
> When one is listening to a book (is that Daisy?), does one
> hear emphasis
> when a word is italicized? Do you scanners listen when you
> scan? Or how do
> you know if words need to be italicized? The book I'm soon
> to upload I have
> because it needed page breaks, but as I put in the breaks I
> found I had to
> eye-scan the print page because there are a lot of words I
> found that hadto
> be changed in the file to italics. It was just accident
> that a sighted
> proofer happened to get this file. How would a blind
> scanner know that a
> book needed a sighted proofer to put in italics? Can the
> OCR be set to scan
> italicised words or words with an odd font?
>
> cindy
> Cindy
>
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