That's really interesting to know that how you use braille and JAWS.
Misha
On 11/2/2016 8:28 PM, Estelnalissi wrote:
Dear Misha and Deborah,
I can and will use both of your solutions. Thank you so much.
Misha, I’m relieved when you and others take the question of 12 point bolding out of my hands. Your approach makes proofreading that just more streamlined.
I’ll use Deborah’s technique when the 12 point bolding is there because I’ve heard some sighted Bookshare users say they like it. They’ve been considerate of my needs as a braille reader, so when the opportunity pops up, I’m very willing to preserve the bolding in the right places, as in for emphases or as visual cues. The new braille has code for reveling bolding to braille. I take note of that fact though I read with older braille rules, more compact, faster. I’m not interested in the added punctuation unless, maybe, if I were reading a textbook or complex nonfiction. Deborah, I knew there was some kind of way to locate bolding in the find but had no idea how to get to it either relying on JAWS or visually. JAWS is my go to means of doing almost everything so I’m glad I can follow its lead to the boldings. I appreciate it that you explained when to and not to type and how to use the arrows and what to listen for. Your directions are crystal clear!
I am equally comfortable with both techniques for dealing with bolding.
Double thanks for answers times two!
Always with love,
Lissi
*From:* Deborah Murray (Redacted sender "blinkeeblink" for DMARC) <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:55 PM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: More work for Deborah
Hi Lissi,
Well, Judy is the true Word guru <smile>, but I’ll tell you what I do.
I assume you are using MS Word, so here goes.
1.Press control plus “F” for the Find dialogue box.
2.Don’t type anything in the edit box, but tab until you see/hear a “more”button and press space to activate it.
3.3. You’ll need to tab a number of times (I can’t remember without doing it) until you hear “format button menu”.
4.Don’t press space here, simply down arrow to open this menu.
5.After one or two down arrows you’ll hear “Font…”. Press enter and you’ll be in the font dialogue box.
6.From here you can specify the font type you’re looking for. Choose bold from the font style combo box.
7.For Bookshare purposes, you’re probably looking for words that are 12 points and bold because we don’t want that in most cases. So also choose point size of 12.
8.Tab to OK and press space.
9.Now that you’re out of the font dialogue, tab to “find next” and press space.
*I think you know how to handle it from here… *
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*Hope that was clear!*
*Deborah*
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*From:*bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Estelnalissi
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:32 PM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] More work for Deborah
Dear Deborah,
While you’re telling us how to make magic inserts and finds, can you tell me how to find bolded text? Sometimes my partial vision sees it and sometimes not. Because of light, shadow or pressure on pages, occasionally whole pages are bolded by an OCR and I don’t always notice because I rely 98% of the time on Jaws. If I do catch something bolded that shouldn’t be, then I’m paranoid that it could have happened anywhere in my book and I missed it, but I dread having to scroll through all of the pages to check visually which is uncomfortable..
Thanks in advance.
Roger, I knew Bookshare tacked page numbers at the tops of pages. The work feels smoother as I’m proofing if they are at the top, so much so that it is worth the trouble for me to put them there myself as I go along. I’d never ask a scanner to go to that trouble to accommodate my little quirk.
Our Vanessa is so sensitive and accepting of the fact that scanners and proofreaders have varying work styles. we’re so lucky that she respects them as long as we get the absolute requirements right. The volunteers here are so responsive, uncritical and helpful with specific questions. I feel our volunteering environment has been tremendously positive lately.
I hope we’ll get a count of how many books we volunteers have contributed as a group as January approaches and that we’ll have topped last year’s total. The proofreaders have a wealth of books to choose from thanks to the wish list books the staff are putting up and I think we’ve got some new scanners as well. For my part, due to some interfering downs, I’m way off my usual contribution but I’m putting in lots of time to do what catching up I Can.
Always with love,
Lissi
