[bksvol-discuss] Re: James' book missing material
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:32:23 -0700 (PDT)
After I hit Send, I wondered--if they scan somewht
scrambled, and tabs and spaces disappear, how can we
line them up properly? OF do we just leave them as
they are?
Cindy
--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jamie,
>
> An upgrade to include table navigation was made back
> in late 2005. The processing tools should pick upRTF
> tables and handle them appropriately. So no nothing
> special should be required.
>
> Jake
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jamie Yates
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:09 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: James' book missing
> material
>
>
> I was wondering if there are tables in a book, how
> to make those readable for brf and daisy?
>
> Is it acceptable to leave them in table format, or
> does something special need to be done to them?
>
> Jamie
>
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> I am going to release it tonight. There is also
> a huge table of data in the
> front that is very hard to read. If anyone
> sighted is interested in
> validating it, the book is What Color Is Your
> Parachute, 2006 Edition.
>
> Jim
>
> James D Homme,
> Usability Engineering
> Highmark Inc.
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 412-544-8177
>
> "If you think you can, or if you think you
> can't, you are right."
>
>
>
>
> "Grandma Cindy"
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> 04/10/2007 06:07
> PM
>
>
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>
>
> What is the book, James? Perhaps one of us can
> obtain
> it and provide you with the missing pages. If
> you can
> provide the ISBN number as well as the title I
> can
> perhaps get the exact copy.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > When I validate, I try to read the entire
> book. It
> > helps if I am interested
> > in the book.
> >
> > I have a related question. When someone sends
> back a
> > book, can they
> > partially validate it and have it go back to
> step
> > one for someone else to
> > look at? I'm asking because I can tell that a
> book I
> > got definitely has
> > some missing material, but I don't want to
> reject it
> > because it is an
> > otherwise very clean book.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > James D Homme,
> > Usability Engineering
> > Highmark Inc.
> > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 412-544-8177
> >
> > "If you think you can, or if you think you
> can't,
> > you are right."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Grandma Cindy"
> >
> > >
> > oo.com>
> > To
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> >
> > [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating the
> > Validator
> >
> > 04/09/2007 09:04
> >
> > PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Please respond to
> >
> > bksvol-discuss@fr
> >
> > eelists.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I had the impression from various posts that
> at
> > least
> > some of the blind volunteers do get the book
> and
> > listen or follow in braille as they validate.
> > Perhaps
> > I made a wrong assumption.
> >
> > But yes, if one can't get the book and can't,
> from
> > the
> > reading of the downloaded file, figure out the
> word
> > that's missing from the sentence, and there
> are a
> > lot
> > of them, then, as someone else suggested, the
> book
> > should either be released for someone sighted
> to do,
> > preferably in my opinion, or be rejected. I
> know we
> > have some peopple on this list who are
> disabled in a
> > way that qualifies them but are sighted, and
> people
> > who have partial sight. But a lot of the time,
> if
> > the
> > validator like Jim is reading the book file,
> the
> > wrong
> > or missing word is obvious and can be filled
> in. The
> > book I'm doing now is like that. I don't
> really need
> > the physical book, though I do have it. In a
> > sentence
> > I read last night the letter m stood for him,
> not
> > in--it was obvious from the context. And an
> earlier
> > sentence that contained the word rolling
> didn't make
> > sense to me, so I checked and it was supposed
> to be
> > strolling. If I'd left the people rolling
> along the
> > beach instead of strolling along the beach it
> > probably
> > wouldn't have made too much difference. smile
> >
> > It may be that a person who was an English or
> > history
> > major and/or done a lot of general reading is
> more
> > attuned to sentences and sentence structure
> than,
> > for
> > example, a person whose background is in math
> or
> > sciences; in that case perhaps filling in
> words
> > based
> > on context or phraseolog wouldn't be as easy
> and the
> > book should be released.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Jamie Yates wrote:
> >
> > > Cindy, when you are validating a book that
> is
> > > missing
> > > words in the book, and you can't get a
> physical
> > book
> > > to look and see what the missing words are,
> would
> > > the
> > > proper step be to reject the book?
> > >
> > > It would be difficult for bookshare
> volunteers who
> > > aren't sighted to compare the scanned text
> to a
> > > physical book unless they scanned the page
> in
> > > question, and if they were going to do that,
> they
> > > might as well just rescan the book, right?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jamie in Michigan
> > >
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