[bksvol-discuss] Re: some questions
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:40 -0500
Hi everyone!
My husband, Bruce, who has some sight tole me that the "look inside a book"
on Amazon is graphical, so our screen readers can't see what is there.
That was a good idea about getting a librarian to help.
Debby
At 08:05 PM 10/27/2009, Mayrie ReNae wrote
HI Gwen,
Yes, sometimes knowing where chapter headings should go, and what they
should say can be tricky. I haven't found a place online to find out this
stuff that works for a blind person. The feature that allows a person to
look inside a book on Amazon is, unfortunately, not usable by a blind
person, at least, not by me. I'm pretty sure a geek could do it, but I'm
nowhere near being a geek!
If you are pretty sure that your chapter headings are things like
"chapter 1" you can figure out where they go, because those pages may
have garbled text at the top that is obviously not the running header of
title or author of the book. So, they can be inserted by the
proofreader, if said proofreader can determine that a chapter heading is
something simple like I said above. The rub comes when chapter headings
have actual titles, like little stories. Then sighted assistance is
pretty much what we need.
As for page numbers not appearing in books, if Bob is looking at
books that he submitted, knowing that page numbers were in the book, and
is using Kurzweil to look at the daisy file, Kurzweil doesn't show
bookshare's page numbers. It's a Kurzweil problem, a sort of inadequacy
on their part, but if he were to look at the xml file in Internet
Explorer, he might well discover that the page numbers are indeed in the book.
Does any of that answer your questions? I hope so. Sorry I don't have a
better solution for looking inside a book. I'm pretty sure that every
single sighted volunteer here has had to help me out with inserting
chapter headings in books, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all
of them and their help! If ever I find a way to find this information by
myself, I'll let you know.
You know, if your local librarians are willing to help, and the
library has the books you need, and all you need are the pages on which
chapter headings should start, they might be able to make you a list of
chapter headings and their respective starting pages. Just a thought.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gwen tweedy
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:22 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] some questions
Is there a place on line, where you can find out things for a book like
the contents of books that kind of thing
I know you can wait until you see a sighted person and that is cool but
wondered if there is such a place where you can find out things the
little things without sighted help.
Also Bob thought he heard once, like if it is a text book or an important
book where things have to be precise but on fiction books if it didn't
mess up the book some things didn't matter like we've had books before
where headings weren't there and lots of times the page numbers you don't
hear them in a book they don't show up when the book comes up and is
excepted anyhow because of like software or any number of things.
Because he says he has put up books that he was sure he had the page
numbers in and stuff and when he has looked at them or brought them down
none of those things are in there.
I know you have to do a good job that kind of thing
I have even had a person who does not volunteer for bookshare who just
reads tell me that all that stuff distracts from the book and breaks up
the text and it bothers him.
Just thought I'd ask.
Cause some books no matter what a blind person does some books are grand
but some books especially these tiny ones stuff just doesn't come out and
this is about the 4th time I've gone through this book in fact got so
dilligent on it that ended up putting up a partial book not sure how that
happened but it did.
I'm ready for some new books LOL these same 9 books LOL have been sitting
on my table for months and I've redone them so many times that wow they
are broke *smile*
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