Hi Jean,
Thanks for your input regarding a brailled menu.
Would it work if there was to be a separate menu for each section: ie; Menu
1: Snack and Share. Menu 2: Pasta. Menu 3: Pizzas etc. Then an index page
listing menus available. This way one read of the index would tell the
customer what is available widely, then able to choose which Menu is
preferred for more detail? Also, apologies for my ignorance - but what do
you mean by 1-3 format,3-3, 1-1? Know it's probably really obvious but I
want to know that I fully understand what you mean.
Thanks Jean.
Teri x
Couple of questions for you -
On 14 July 2017 at 14:54, Jean Menzies <jemenzies@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I am a braille user and a transcriber. I think restaurant menus are
something where careful thought needs to go into how to make finding and
reading quik. Forget about following print for formatting. Here are a few
things I like:
1. If the menu is more than 5 or 6 pages, consider creating a table of
contents at the beginning.
2. Use centered headings for things like Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner,
Beverages, etc. Centered headings are just faster to find when page
scanning when you don’t want to take an hour to figure out what to order.
3. Repeat the centered heading on line 25 for quick paging through a menu.
Just another way of skipping through quickly. (The current section or start
of a new section is set as a page footer.)
4. Formatting for food entries: Consider using 1-3 format, with the
description and price each starting on a new line within the entry in 3-3.
That way, everything is easy to identify at the left margin, considering
that the menu might be being read in a person’s lap with limited hand
movement space.
5. I typically put section notes immediately after a heading in 1-1.
Things like “Burgers served with fries, soup, or salad. Yam fries may be
substituted ....” Blank line, then the food items in that category in 1-3.
Just some ideas to consider.
Jean
*From:* Debby Lieberman
*Sent:* Friday, July 14, 2017 10:29 AM
*To:* ueb-ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [ueb-ed] Re: Menu braille
To add to what Don wrote — In addition to collaboration with experienced
transcribers, feedback from braille readers is invaluable. Many don’t know
(and don’t care about) braille code rules, but they do know what formatting
makes something easy to follow or helps them locate something on the
page.
Debby
On Jul 14, 2017, at 10:48 AM, Don Winiecki <dwiniecki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
While I would be confident that most menus contain one or more types of
lists, in my experience there is no single proper format for an entire
menu.
In fact I might hazard the statement that producing a usable and adequate
transcription of a relatively complex menu will require more skill and
professional judgment than nearly any other single brailling project.
While I suspect this is not helpful in response to the original question,
I see it as recognition that human creativity is still a critical aspect of
this work.
Gaining confidence and fluency when there are no clear right or wrong
answers requires ongoing collaboration with experienced transcribers,
including sharing examples and critiques of those examples.
With that in mind, is it possible to share parts of the menu you are
transcribing?
Best,
_don
On Jul 14, 2017, at 11:32 AM, MJ Williams <matthewjwilliams101@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
What sort of "menu"?
On 14/07/2017, Theresa Wyatt <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Could you please confirm the format for braille for a menu please? I think
it would be classed as a list according to the Australian Training Manual
2013 p176, that I have, and I cannot find it in the Rules of UEB 2013. Any
ideas please?
Teri
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*T Wyatt*
