[brailleblaster] Re: What will this look like?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 23:58:16 -0500
Rick,
This is a good suggestion, because transcribers, both blind and sighted,
are the most important part of our intended audience.
The BrailleBlaster specification at the project page,
http://brailleblaster.code.google.com/p/brailleblaster describes the
appearance of the user interface and the capabilities of the progrram in
detail. To summarize, when BrailleBlaster starts up it will display a
welcome screen with some information and some options. When you get
through with this (Which can be disabled) it displays a normal edotor
window. This is the text window. There is also a braille window which
can be moved into various positions relative to the text window. It will
display text and braille interlined. The braile can be displayed as dot
patterns or as ASCII characters. It will of course be readable on a
braille display, though I don't think anyone would want to listen to it.
The text part will be good in speech. The application will try to be as
accessible to both blind and sighted as possible.
The program will offer complete transcribing services, including
dividing a book into volumes, formatting, tables of contents, math in
various braille codes, many different languages, etc.
There will, of course, be help and tutorials. In fact we need
nontechnical people to write them.
Others may have more to add, and I willl be glad to answer any
questions.
John B.
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:08:02PM -0400, Rick Roderick wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been on this list for about two or three weeks. Everything I have
> seen so far has related to programming. I am a transcriber, but not a
> programmer. Could some of you please talk more about what some of this will
> look like for the rest of us?
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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