Re: Bookshare Validator Needed
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 07:44:37 -0700
Jim, do u have the printed book & would u send it to me if so? I will
validate if u do but I won't if u don't, for the specific reasons
Chris sited. Contact me off list at
abletec@xxxxxxxxx
if you'd be interested in workin w/me on this. I have an optacon & I
can use it very successfully to validate these types of materials but
I don't wanna do it w/o the printed book because there's too much
possibility of error, which will only leave the reader frustrated when
s/he tries to use the code examples, etc.
Let me know.
On 5/1/08, Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not involved at all in the volunteer side of BSO. I'm cranky, obnoxious
> and tend to patronize people so putting me into the path of some decent
> person who just wants to help is probably a bad idea <laugh>. I'm just kind
> of curious as how a person is expected to validate a book, especially a
> technical tome filled with jargon without being able to follow along in the
> print version? What of the terms that inevitably appear in such documents
> that speak horribly with a screen reader, thus introducing a level of
> ambiguity to one who is trying to validate information - is the poorly
> pronounced word actually something the OCR got wrong or is it the speech
> synthesizer that blew it?
>
> As most of us need to talk to sighted colleagues, pronunciation is pretty
> important. Searching for a term based upon a synthetic pronunciation may
> find no results because the sounds we hear are distant from the way the word
> is written. Also, while talking to a sighted colleague, we will likely run
> into points of confusion if we pronounce a term in a manner vastly
> differently from its actual sound and vice versa which can leave both the
> blink and the sightie scratching our heads for a while.
>
> I'm just curious about how this process will work.
>
> Enjoy,
> Cdh
>
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: Bookshare Validator Needed
>
>
> Hi,
> Because they changed the rules and said that people who scan can't
> validate, I need someone to go out and validate Teach Yourself Ruby In 21
> Days. It's been sitting out there for a long time.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
>
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