[bksvol-discuss] Re: questions from a new volunteer
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:41:57 -0500
Hi, Jake. Actually, I know enough about JAWS to know it won't read things
like that in forms mode, and I do remember the first time I tried to submit
a book and it wouldn't go. I remember it very well, actually, because thus
far, it has been the only error I've ever gotten that didn't specify what
the problem was, and it did turn out to be the short synopsis. Now that I've
had that experience, I'm always careful to use Word's word count, because I
don't ever want to go through that again, trying and trying and trying but
not being able to figure out what the error was and it ended up being
something that simple! <smile> Take care.
Julie Morales
Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: questions from a new volunteer
Hi Julie,
The short synopsis has always given me an error when it was the culpret.
I think some folks forget that the message won't be read to them when using
JAWS' forms mode. It has to do with the placement of the error message
relative to the textarea object. Thus I always recommend using the find
feature to locate the word error.
The only field that doesn't seem to generate error messages in my experience
is when there's an apostrophy in the filename. Robin said it might have been
a return character at the beginning of the long synopsis that held her book
up. I plan to test that theory in a little bit when I submit a book.
I'll pass any findings along to the list and Gustavo (for inclusion in v2.0)
Best,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: questions from a new volunteer
> Hi, Robin, and welcome to Bookshare! It is a wonderful service and I'm
> ever
> so grateful for it. Have you signed up to be a volunteer yet? Since you're
> already a member, you'll need to contact
> volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> because, for some reason, when you try to fill out an application to be a
> volunteer from the site, you get an error that you're already a member.
> Anyway, you'll need to do that before you can validate anything that has
> already been submitted. As for your submissions, do the file names have
> any
> punctuation marks in them, like commas, apostrophes or anything of the
> sort,
> short of the periods that make up the file extension? That causes an error
> that the system doesn't specify, as does going over the 200 allotted
> characters for the short synopsis. The ISBN can also sometimes be a
> problem,
> so if all else fails and you entered the ISBN, try taking that out. Take
> care.
> Julie Morales
> Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Mandell" <robinmandell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:01 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] questions from a new volunteer
>
>
> HI All,
>
> I have just come on-board. Bookshare.org is a wonderful service, and
> I say that all the more because I am originally from Canada where we
> aren't allowed to have such a service--copyright laws of course!
>
> Anyway, I want to dive in and start contributing, but I'm not sure what
> this whole verification process is about. I was mosying around the Web
> site, and found the page where we volunteers download things to be
> verified. I'm not sure what is expected in the verification process,
> though. Are we expected to read the whole book (not a problem for me, of
> course)? What processs do we follow to upload them to the site? Is it the
> same process as used for submitting books.
>
> About submitting books: I submitted a few yesterday and dind't have a
> problem. Today, I can't seem to submit anything. I've tried with two
> seperate books and I'm always told there are errors in my form, but not
> what they are. (when I submitted books yesterday and made mistakes, it
> seemed very clearly marked what those mistakes were.) It's very
> frustrating as I have about 5 more books I'd like to submit from my
> collection.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
>
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