[bksvol-discuss] Re: Frustration over missed opportunities for perfection
- From: "mickey" <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:16:22 -0400
Hi. I think we all understand that there are different needs for different
people, all of whom need BS. Braille is laid out different from print, which
will be different from DAISY. All three needs must be met, so the validators do
the best we can to understand the intent of the author. But, unless there is
someone experiencing all three identified needs, it would be impossible to get
a perfect book, meeting all needs. There is no way I can identify a drawing or
picture. That picture could be of great value, but the printed caption could be
in such a position that the scanner of either the submitter or validator
wouldn't pick it up.
I don't know what the answer is, except that we all do our best. I do think at
least one thorough reading of all books is essential.
Mickey Prahin
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----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Frustration over missed opportunities for
perfection
E and others,
Please, please, please do not mistake sighted readers/members of Bookshare
with people who can read printed versions/editions of books. I can scan and
validate books and do many that are ones I have sitting on my shelves but in
which the print is too small for me to read or the book is too big for me to
hold or manage turning the pages even if I can hold them. There are all sorts
of reasons why someone cannot use standard printed material.
When I finish writing this letter, I will down-size the print for the
convenience of Bookshare readers and "freelist" receivers. Then Booksharians
who have readers can have them at whatever size is convenient. I cannot
double-check this at a smaller print as I do not have a screen reader that
reads mail as I write it. The screen reader that came with my computer [Dell]
reads menus & sub-menus only and not the contents of the pages. The only reader
I have that re ads th e text is in my Kurzweil so I have to move anything I
want read has to be moved to that, including the long, long letters from my
sister in Cambodia. Other mail I can enlarge if it is not to long. My ability
to read even enlarged material is limited by the strain of reading.
I write this not for sympathy any more than members who identify themselves
as blind do so for sympathy but to help all of you understand why some members
of Bookshare do need and appreciate the service but also want the books to be
as accurate and true to what the author wrote as possible. Even the blind can
benefit from knowing what they cannot see - that there are pictures with
captions and what both are even though the sighted also cannot see the
pictures since Bookshare cannot reproduce pictures or sketches. It does help
to know that the author felt s/he felt they would be beneficial to the
readers. I wish I had read The Si lmaril lion before I scanned and validated
The Tale of Genji or I would have done a much better and more consistent job
with the drawings. Then the copy really would have been excellent.
I am sorry to have gone one so long but there are sighted people who really
do need Bookshare quite as much as the blind do.
Amy
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