[brailleblaster] Re: What will this look like?
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:26:02 -0700
Hi, I wrote the specification document. Although I am largely ignorant of
software (and just as lost in most of the on-going discussions as you), I
tried to write the spec so that software people could understand the intent
and turn it into software-speak. It may have turned out to be a bit too
geeky, so if there are things about the spec you don't understand, just ask,
and I will expand the discussion within the spec document to be more clear.
One comment about John's description. Although BrailleBlaster will be quite
powerful, the power is largely incorporated by using the right formatting
templates and following rigorous guidelines about document structure. If a
novice doesn't care about all that, she can still use this application and
get correct Braille. Minimum skill level shouldn't be much more than
ability to use a standard word processor and find the "translate" menu item.
John Gardner
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: What will this look like?
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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