[bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:03:49 -0700 (PDT)
chuckle. I don't think I've read Gulliver's travels since childhood, and of
course then I missed all the satire. I shall have to get it again now that I'm
an adult. Thanks, Roer.
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> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 9:56 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers
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>I would ask why it would matter if the page numbers are on the top left or the
>top right? When I read a book with synthetic speech I can't even tell whether
>they are on the left or right. The screen reader just goes ahead and reads the
>numbers and goes on. I have never tried reading a Bookshare book in Braille
>because my Braille skills are so poor, but if reading Braille on a Braille
>display is like reading Braille on Braille paper then I suppose you could tell
>the difference, but what difference would it make? Personally, if I was good
>enough at Braille to sit down and read a Braille book I think I would want the
>page number to be in the same place on every page so that I would not have to
>search for it and I am pretty sure that I would want it on the left. However,
>it still seems like one of those arguments that is illustrated by the story in
>Gulliver's Travels where a civil war breaks out over whether people should
>break their eggs on the big end or
the little end. Since my screen reader does not let me know whether the page
number is on the right or left I had not even thought about it until some
question about it came up here and when it did I was very quickly reminded of
those big endians and those little endians in Gulliver's Travels.
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>On 7/7/2012 9:58 AM, Kathy Novak wrote:
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>Cindy,
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>>Since pages of text are supposed to be linked to the same page number in the
>>Bookshare file--the go to page feature, I put the numbers at the top of
>>pages, top left for even numbers, and top right for odd numbers.
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>>Kathy Novak
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