Re: off topic - accessibility

  • From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:37:15 -0800

I am working on a fantasy in science fiction world book for my favorite role playing game system, Palladium games
I have been playing the pencil and paper (as there called to distinguish them from a couple other varieties) role playing games since the mid seventies, started with dungeons and dragons first edition, and still play it, have played the white wolf, GURPS, StarWars,systems and am still playing D&D every other weekend with a group who's core members have been playing together for over 14 years.
I started this book a few years back, ran a primary test of the game with my group, and they loved it, I thought I lost my work when my computer was stolen when I moved back to cal, but then found a copy on a old HD I had taken with me, and started reworking the game to fit into the current standards of the palladium system world books.
just so you and anyone else reading this knows, with several of these systems you can create almost any kind of game/world to play in, fantasy, science fiction, teenage mutant ninja turtles, starwars, wheel of time, spy verses spy, post apocalyptic earth, modern day sleuthing, past present or future military, someone even made a zanth RPG with aid directly from pierce Anthony. anything, lol, I can remember seeing a section of books devoted to "bunnies and Burroughs" a rpg for young children, oh I forgot there are also cartoon character games and super hero ones.
I am close to ready to start my second play trial of my science-fantasy game with the group, and most of them are looking forward to it!
alright, enough of my rambles for now, but if anyone is interested, Email me off list, and we can either Email privately or you can join me on the 
blindAccessHelp list at:
blindAccessHelp-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
oh and there is a blind gaming group playing dungeons and dragons on pal-talk as well! 

its fun, mind stirring, and can be a great social event as well,
and I don't mean to offend, but to those who have been told that RPG games like dungeons and dragons is devil worship, most of the players in my group are steady sturdy Christians, one of them teaches Sunday school in her spare time, and I think she has missed one Sunday in two years of it!
so take that belief, and any comments made like it, and stick them where they belong... in a well sealed trash container and ship it to a dangerous waist disposal company, if you put it into a land fill, the poisonisness of it will kill the land its buried under...
a final note, gaming is where my online handle comes from, "I'm inthane!, I'm an elf!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: off topic - accessibility



what book are you writing inthane? just curious. I didn't know you were a
budding author...
--le
----- Original Message ----- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: off topic - accessibility


hmmm, I've had good luck with it on small items, but my books, well they
aint small and those are what I need the most right now since I need them as 
references for the book I am writing.

laters,
the elf
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: off topic - accessibility



pdf2txt has never worked for me... I just get a garbled text file. good
luck. :d


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
web: tysdomain-com
Visit for quality software and web design.
skype: st8amnd2005
----- Original Message ----- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: off topic - accessibility



ah that it will Jamal, but I have unfortunately  run into a problem with
your little Gem.

I started using the OCR abilities, and it does a good job of OCR'ing
things so far for me, but... the load up is bad on the system, and large
items (many I have are well over 50 pages, some run into the 300 + size)
will generally, I should say so far always, keep building load on my
system until CPU usage is 100% and its not done with 60 pages.

and then it freezes up my system, I can alternate windows, I can get to
my desktop, but nothing will run or actuate, even running device manager
is slow as a snail and I get a not responding notice in there and have to kill it, losing the stuff that was being worked on, and winding up with a 
zero.

got any ideas?
inthane
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: off topic - accessibility



FYI -- PDF2TXT
http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe

converts PDFs to text *much* faster than Adobe Reader.  It can convert
any number of PDFs in a directory with a single command. It can convert 
PDFs that Adobe Reader either cannot or will not convert. <grin>

Jamal
On Fri, 19
Dec 2008, Chris Hallsworth wrote:


Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:46:43 -0000
From: Chris Hallsworth <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: off topic - accessibility

Ah, but perhaps Fox It reader hasn't got the code to tell screen
readers to
activate its virtual buffer. I found Adobe Reader 9 to be reasonably
fast at
opening PDF files and of course is accessible.

--
Chris Hallsworth
E-mail: CH9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
MSN: CH9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: chrishallsworth7266
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:51 PM
Subject: off topic - accessibility


> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know a better and accessible pdf reader than Adobe
> Reader?
> (That opens faster).
>
> I heard that Foxit reader is accessible with Window Eyes. I have
> tried it
> with Jaws, and it it is faster indeed, but I found that it is not
> accessible with neither Jaws 9 nor Jaws 6.
>
> But I have read that it is accessible and it respects the section > 508 
> at:
> http://www.foxitsoftware.com/solutions/accessibility/index.html
>
> Does anyone know more?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Octavian
>
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