[bksvol-discuss] Re: Textbook validating
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:21:44 -0700 (PDT)
re graphs and diagrams: when I've had those in books
I've just said something like "graph
illustrating..."--without the qquotation marks but in
brackets. For example, I might say Graph illustrating
growth of production, or something. Or "Diagram
illustrating... and then whatever it'sillustrating or
clarifying.
Footnotes in the text: people have said they just want
the footnote number after the period--they don't want
it superscript or in parentheses.
Footnotes at the bottom of the page: In all the books
I've done, they've scanned and have been there. I just
put the footnote number, which is usually there
anyway, and validate the footnote, and then make the
font smaller, but you probably don't have to do that.
What kind of indicator in the regular text indicates
end-notes. Aren't they like the footnotes? In the
text, treat them the same way. You can either validate
the end notes or, if they're readable, leave them
alone. I usually leave them alone, although
occasionally I've validated, or at least done a
spell-check. But I put a note in the long synopsis
that if anyone needs them corrected to let me know and
I'll get the book and fix them. I put my name and
email address.
Probably you can ignore them, but you could put them
in caps or italics if you want. I don't think
highlighting translates by bookshare, but it is
possible, I think, to highlight in Word.
>
>
> Throughout the book, some ot the text is highlighted
> by being in grey boxes. These scanned
> in very well for the most part so that isn't the
> problem. These aren't separate sidebar
> information, they are just parts of the text the
> author apparently thought are important enough
> to highlight. Is there any standard way to indicate
> such highlighting? Or should I just ignore
> it?
I can't help with the last problem because I know
nothing about a screen reader. However, for other
people with tables I've translated them into Word,
i.e., put them into sentences--somewhat tedious a
task, but I think it's been satisfactory. Or you can
just sayh, as with the graphs and diagrams, this is a
table illustrating.... That's usually been the case,
I've found. Tables may make explanations and text
easier for some sighted students to understand--to
"see"-- but obviously they're no help to someone who's
blind.
Maybe others will have more and better help for you,
but since no one else has yet answered, I thought I'd
do my best.
Cindy
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