[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare policy on RTF files.
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:14:13 -0500
Hi all,
Original message:
Hi,
That's what it sounds like. Who is this Nicole, Martin, do you know?
I'm just gonna go on as I've always done, using discression!
OK, we're still having communication problems. This is because
Bookshare staff do not understand how those of us who use screen
readers, read. If you will indulge me, I'll explain.
A sighted person reads a page in two ways, by reading individual lines,
and also by looking at a computer screen as a whole. These methods of
reading make it possible for a sighted person to pick out a tagline
from a message without reading the message first. This is not possible
for someone using a screen reader. We must read line by line or let
our screen readers start at the beginning of a message and continue
through the message till we get to the end.
This is why I have been pleading for the past few days for Bookshare
staff to identify themselves in their email messages. By this I do not
just mean having an official tagline. I mean actually typing something
like: My name is so-and-so and I am the director of Whatever. Putting
this at the top of the message, as the first sentence so that we can
*see* to whom we are listening without reading the entire message.
Doing this also alerts us to what part of Bookshare the individual
message is coming from, the status of the writer and also introduces
him or her to us officially.
Please, could you all do us this small courtesy so that we don't get
messages from volunteers like the one above? Of course we don't need
Pavi or Carrie to do this, we know them, we know their writing style,
but Nichole has just appeared on our horizon without notice. thanks a million.
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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