[BNU] Re: Bookshare accessibility and more
- From: Dave Sheridan <dsheridan65@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "AShields@xxxxxxxx" <AShields@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:50:36 +0000
Thank you Andy for what I believe is a sensible and well thought out message.
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
> On 29 Oct 2014, at 14:45, Andy Shields <AShields@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey, listers,
>
> I’m happy to say that, as reported, downloading books from the “new” site is
> as simple as ever with scripting disabled. (Just got one a few minutes ago
> with absolutely no complications.) Note to Rajmund and others: For a long
> time I thought that it was necessary to leave it enabled to get full details
> and features of websites. It took a lot more slow, or hung-up, sessions with
> Apex web-browsing than it should have to figure out that _disabling scripting
> almost always streamlines things in every way. Hindsight, as always, is
> 20/20. (Although, as I’m sure some of you know, this is very specific to the
> situation and the particular website; some of them flat won’t display half
> the download options or links unless scripting is not disabled. Generally,
> this seems to be “more the exception than the rule.”) I’d like to thank
> Joseph for his excellent, specific, well-thought-out responses to questions
> about resets and the whole operating-system question in general. I’m not
> nearly as perplexed about the shortcomings of the Apex as a lot of you on the
> list. I think this has everything to do with the fact that I’m so much
> older—I had only a Perkins Brailler for writing for most of my life, and I
> learned typing on a _manual typewriter, which I myself find almost impossible
> to imagine! So I’m pretty much blown away, still, by all of the neat wireless
> things the Apex allows me to do, particularly downloading books and music (I
> use a computer and the Apex daily at work, but am always in favor of anything
> that allows me to get material directly onto the BrailleNote without
> involving another device; for instance, I had no interest in BARD until they
> removed the necessity of my going through the roundabout process of using a
> computer for something that I always thought should be simpler.) Having said
> all that: as I’m sure you’all have noticed, an increasing number of websites
> have features that are partially, or totally, inaccessible to the Apex due to
> its “ancient browser” (the actual wording of little warnings that appear at
> the tops of pages, prompting me to do upgrades that I obviously can’t do
> because of the nature of .exe. applications, etc.) I would write a
> testimonial to all of the things about the Apex that I love and use, but I
> don’t see a way around the urgent need, and “sooner rather than later”, to
> somehow upgrade to _something newer and more flexible than IE6! Yes, I know
> this is not an easy fix. I would rather it is not based on going to something
> Android-based, but that’s my own prejudice, and I’m sure has a lot to do with
> being such a voracious Braille reader spoiled by the size and portability of
> the Apex display. Certainly the type and versatility of all kinds of apps
> just grows exponentially, so that something I can’t even imagine will come
> along that’s more straightforward and inclusive. Whatever it turns out to be,
> I hope work has already started on it.
>
> Andy
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