[brailleblaster] Re: What will this look like?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 14:30:40 -0500
Another think I should have mentioned iis that there will be special
features for transcribers. If you don't like the way sommething is
translated you can enter your own translation and lock it, so it won't
be changed when the document is tetranslated and reformatted.
John B.
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 09:26:02AM -0700, John Gardner wrote:
o> 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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>
> 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?
> >
>
> --
> 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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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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