[bookshare-discuss] no mor share in Bookshare...book.org
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:35:46 -0500
Dear Booksharian friends,
We're growing and changing all right, and while I can, I'm enjoying scanning
and validating enormously.
Geoff was musing, acknowledging PQ books can be good and speculating there may
come a day when we no longer need to scan books, and to that, I added "or
validate, either."
In the spirit of musing, the thought trickled by that no more scanning or
validating would put an end to the original concept of blind people and other
reading challenged people sharing their hard won scans and validations with one
another. What started as Bookshare.org, when all additions are of PQ books only
will become Book.org, or, with all the additional staff, they'll generate a
totally new name, blank.org, formerly known as Bookshare.org and finally
blank.org with Bookshare a memory descended below the horizon. Whatever the
name, we can hope the books will have some sort of synopses and be braille
accessible with conversions which won't fry the brains of the braille readers
or their adaptive technologies.
I really think everything will be all right, but musing happens.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Stephens
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:30 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Way To Go, Scott!
Updating the Web interface is trivial compared to the changes to the back end
necessary for such things as book conversions, etc. Still, the uI for the
service has needed ongoing enhancement which really hasn't been addressed.
this is really the easiest part of the process.
Do a book search and the results aren't organized in any logical manner that
makes navigation with a screen reader the least bit intuitive. I'm not going
to bother to try to get into all the specifics about what needs to be done to
the site here. it would take some time. It is disappointing that sites
designed specifically for use by blind people don't implement the very features
we complain about every day with regard to many mainstream sites.
I don't know what I would do without it, but I shudder when I think about all
the duplication of effort of scanning content that is new enough that it never
gained the distinction of being typed or hand written. I applaud the publisher
quality effort and hope we can eventually completely eliminate the need to scan
books.
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