Like I said, if a sighted person cannot tell the difference between a 1 and an I or a O and a 0 then that sighted person is not as sighted as he or she thinks and probably needs glasses.
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:50 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for sighted volunteers
Well, I actually did know that they looked similar, but I guess what I was really asking was how can a sighted volunteer tell one from the other. So that we can get books that sound good as well as look good. For instance, I'll use the word off as an example. It would be read as follows zero-f-f. If you were reading it in Braille, you would have a number sign, followed by the 0, followed by a symbol telling you that you're switching back to alpha characters and the the ff. So, you can see that it would be very distracting. So, is the only way for a sighted volunteer to tell the difference by doing a search for the offending characters, or is there a font that can show the difference? If there is a font that shows the difference, perhaps the sighted volunteer, or outsourcer, should use that font to proof, then change to one of the recommended fonts after everything is completed. Melissa Smith On 4/11/2010 9:27 AM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:Hi Melissa, yes, the number 1 and the capital letter I in print are very similar. It's a common scanning error I get so I try to do a search for 1 space and space 1 to see if I got any of them so I can fix them before I submit. And almost ALWAYS if there is a phrase like "O Lord" or something else where the O is all by itself I get a 0 instead. They are bot a circle, sort of. The ones and I's are both straight lines. The other common scanning error I see is urn for um as the lower case r and n run together looks like a small letter m. Same with die for the. This is a little more far reaching but if the print quality of the book is poor or the scanner didn't press down on the book hard enough the t seems to scan as a d with part of the h blending to the t to "close up" the t to make it a d and then what's left of the h scans as a lowercase i. Without being able to actually see the letters I know this probably makes no sense at all but just know you're correct in your guess that they look alike, the 1 and the I and the 0 and the O. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon Earn cash for answering trivia questions every 3 hours: http://instantcashsweepstakes.com/invitations/ref_link/49497 See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html <http://www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html>
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