[brailleblaster] Re: Another reproducible lockup
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:54:15 -0400
Brandon,
Can you give me a better solution that a user like me can use to produce
better formed XML documents from Word? If there is one, I will definitely
use it. I know saving the XML directly with Word doesn't work. Users of Word
are definitely going to want to use BB to produce Braille if BB is meant for
public consumption. I am not disputing that my documents are not formatted
correctly but don't know how to get them any better without learning XML and
spending a lot of time manually typing it in.
Best regards from Ohio,
Vic
From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brandon Roller
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 4:34 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Another reproducible lockup
Michael, I completely agree.
This should be fairly easy to resolve and I will do it sometime early
tomorrow, but my point is that the way that, in my opinion, Daisy plug-in
formats xml is very poorly.
I don't think it's worth the time to defensively code against a single
plug-in that creates poorly formatted xml. If it doesn't work, the user may
be better off having to find a different solution.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I would say there is a difference of valid and awful. A document may be
valid but may be awful as well (thinks of HTML from MS Word).
I feel that as much as possible whe should support valid documents, we
cannot guarantee what the tool creating a document is like.
Michael Whapples
On 02/05/2013 21:15, Brandon Roller wrote:
OK, I see. The screen reader shouldn't be the problem. I tried your
original and get the same error.
You are correct that not every document will be perfect, but at the same
time a document should be reasonably formatted and not completely terrible.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Brandon,
Yes, this attachment fixes the problem. But can we expect that the documents
that users want to use will be formatted exactly correctly? I doubt it.
Did you have a screen reader running when you tested? I can duplicate it
with both Window-Eyes and NVDA. Maybe this has an effect. I will try it
without a screen reader once my wife gets home and can watch.
Best regards from Ohio,
Vic
From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brandon Roller
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 3:11 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Another reproducible lockup
Vic,
Try using this version instead. It is formatted better than the one created
by the daisy plug-in.
I removed the strong tags around empty spaces and some other minor changes,
such as removing empty paragraph tags.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found a lockup that is 100% for me.
Open the 06 Sample Presentations-sr.xml file.
Control tab to the Braille view.
Arrow down to the line that contains "Page 8."
Press home to move to the beginning of the line. This step may or may not be
necessary.
Begin moving right with the right arrow key. BB will freeze when you get to
the 8.
Best regards from Ohio,
Vic
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