[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 21:35:40 -0500
Hi Jamie!
I like your idea of a practice run for new volunteers. Since I don't have
a braille display, I don't know, (but I'm learning from the list) what
works and what doesn't with that, so I certainly understand how difficult
it would be for a sighted person unfamiliar with any access technology to
realize the issues with speech or braille, not using any special software
themselves. At least for me, the scanning and proofreading manual was
rather daunting. I had to read it twice before deciding for sure that I
wanted to volunteer, feeling overwhelmed my first time through.
We all need to be teachable, and I believe we volunteers are that, (smile).
Debby
At 07:13 AM 5/8/2010, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote
The important thing is education. People with sight have no idea how
screen readers work, how braille displays work, or any other tools that
people without sight or like Judy S., the software she uses, how that
works either. We don't use it so we have no clue how to make the files
work with all of the different types of readers that are available.
Yes, the manual has become quite better at explaining things but there is
so much to know and people with sight don't think about things like the
auto correct feature in word or em dashes or fractions not translating
into Braille. A good fast fact sheet would be a handy reference tool for
new and experienced volunteers. That's where this list is so nice--a
person can ask a question and get quick answer--but you also have to know
the question to ask. Like in my first college calculus class, in sheer
frustration I told my professor, I don't even know what I don't know so I
don't know what to ask you for help with! I think volunteers for Bookshare
may feel the same way. They think they're doing a great job (and they are
just by being volunteers!) but in many cases they don't even know what
they don't know.
It would be great if new volunteers were given a file or a couple of files
to "practice proofread" where maybe page breaks are missing and they have
to insert them, fractions are symbols and they have to change them, em
dashes are real and need to be a double dash, to give them the skills they
need to become successful proofreaders before we actually turn them loose
on real books.
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