[duxuser] Re: specific cases of non-blind-friendliness
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:48:53 -0000
Hi Peter,
Please don't get me wrong, but I'm trying to cover as many angles as possible.
However, that said, might your Northwest Vista College instructor be prepared
to share his list?
George.
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> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: 17 March 2004 20:23
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: specific cases of non-blind-friendliness
>
> Good afternoon everyone,
>
> About codes:
> It would be of help if quick references could be made
> available in both print and Braille detailing the various
> Duxbury codes according to document type. For example, there
> could be a quick reference card for title page codes, one for
> supplemental title pages, contents pages, one for index
> pages, you get the idea. Our instructor at Northwest Vista
> College did this for the students in the Braille Textbook
> Transcription course, and it helped out a lot. It sure beats
> having to spend hours going throe that long list
> of codes trying to find the ones for a particular page
> format. Have them
> grouped according to document type, or page type will make it
> easier for those learning the Duxbury codes, and make look-up
> much faster.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:18 AM
> Subject: [duxuser] specific cases of non-blind-friendliness
>
>
> George,
> Off the top of my head, here are a few:
> 1. DBT prints all of its initial manuals and help screens n file
> formats
> unique to duxbury, (dxp). In order to get help, we have to
> already know
> how to use
> the
> program.
> 2. Certain options which directly effect blind users are neither
> described nor explained. There is something called cursor tracking for
> example, which, if disabled, causes the screen access devices
> (speech and
> braille) to virtually freeze. Even though they may be doing
> what they are
> suposed to, we can't see anything.
> 3. In the system menu there is no way to determine what items are
> checked or not checked. Where other menus have x's which can
> be turned on
> and off via the spacebar, the system menu has no such thing.
> 4. There is no complete list of duxbury defaults so people can
> know from where they may be starting.
> 5. I never could find an explanation to justify my editing a file
> in duxbury whose keystrokes I do not know versus editing the
> same file in
> a word processor (be it word or wordperfect or lotus or any other.
> 6. Sometimes, when I have translated a dxp file, the codes are
> included with the translation. Nowhere is there information
> as to how to
> create a file without the codes. The particular example is the
> duxguide.dxp help screen.
>
> I'll stop now. If you are serious George, and I know you are, ask
> us for help. We will be more than glad to give it.
> I beg support and constructive suggestions froom other blind
> users to the
> list.
> For those who think that I am just too stupid to live, please
> write to me
> privately, rather than disturbing these other nice people.
> Catherine
>
>
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