[duxuser] Re: duxbury codes organized in categories.
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:06:47 -0000
This is getting a shade off topic, not to mention political. However, I will
comment.
Duxbury do employ a totally blind programmer. I know him well, and he does a
sterling job. You will see a lot of his work in 10.5.
Many of you will also know Caryn Navy, formerly of Megadots. Caryn does a lot
of work testing Duxbury for accessibility and blind-user friendliness. Caryn
has written JAWS scripts for 10.5, and has been heavily involved in some of the
new language tables.
As I have said earlier, please, like some have done, tell us what areas of DBT
you are having navigational difficulty with. If your problem has not been
addressed in 10.5, I can assure you it will be looked at very seriously by both
Caryn and Mike.
Meanwhile, be assured I am working my tail off on the Help and Documentation
side, and welcoming your ideas so far. I've a heavy weekend authoring to do,
so glad to have your comments.
George Bell.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: 17 March 2004 20:56
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: duxbury codes organized in categories.
>
> Hello Susan and listers,
>
> And there are unemployed blind programmers they could
> hire to give attention to these areas. It's called modular
> programming.
>
> Peter Donahyue
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan" <chrn3292@xxxxxxx>
> To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:21 PM
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: duxbury codes organized in categories.
>
>
> I can comment on the issue of changing from uppercase to
> lowercase with
> certainty and the possibility of adding that as a DBT feature.
>
> All of the current translation softwares on the market (DBT, MegaDots,
> and Braille2000) have a limited number of programmers.
> Features that are
> currently available in Word or WordPerfect (who have thousands of
> programmers) are not going to make it to the top of the wish list for
> translation software. This is straight from the mouths of Joe
> and Peter
> Sullivan at Duxbury and Bob Stepp who is the programmer for
> Braille2000.
> Where they need to spend their time is on specific braille related
> features that won't make it into Microsoft or Corel's wish list.
>
> In this day and age of powerful word processing programs, translation
> software is not meant to be a stand alone piece of software if you are
> using files from another source. It's essential to take the time to
> learn Word or WordPerfect and use that software to take care of such
> things as changing a string of uppercase to lowercase.
>
> Whenever you have a file from another source, ALWAYS open it
> in Word or
> WordPerfect first and see if there are any problems that should be
> corrected before bringing it into DBT. This may be something
> as easy as
> checking for em and en dashes and changing them so DBT will deal with
> them correctly, or using find and replace to fix the problem
> of carriage
> returns at the end of every line. If you don't take the time to check
> out the files and make necessary changes in Word/WordPerfect first, I
> guarantee you will be spending a lot of extra time in DBT to
> fix some of
> these things. This is not only true for DBT, it is also true for
> MegaDots and Braille2000.
>
> I primarily use Word now, but also use WordPerfect, so I can
> state this
> with confidence. There are truly time saving features in both programs
> that will help improve your production time if you take the time to
> learn them. Don't limit yourself to DBT (or MegaDots or Braille2000),
> but use braille translation software as ONE of the tools in
> your arsenal
> for producing quality braille.
>
> Susan
>
>
>
>
>
> Lisa Hall wrote on 3/17/2004, 5:14 AM:
>
> Another thing is that there is no way to change from uppercase to
> lowercase letters without writing what you are modifying in a
> publisher file.
>
>
> George Bell wrote on 3/17/2004, 5:54 AM:
>
> I'll hold my hands up there. You are right. I'm afraid this will
> have to go on he list for future features.
>
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