Thank you. That is an improvement. I still don't think a solution has been reached, though, until these labels are made just informational rather than something that will prohibit access by certain people due to status.
_ _ _ "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world" Virginia Woolf The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 3:48 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] VAT's proposed change to adult rating system Because numerous problems around the adult rating system have come up frequently the following was proposed by the Volunteer Advisory Team to Bookshare. It is currently under consideration by Bookshare for implementation. From VAT to Bookshare: Based on discussions on the volunteer booklist, and amongst ourselves, we, the volunteer advisory team, would like to request that Bookshare make the following changes to the book rating system: 1. Both submitters and proofreaders should have the ability to make decisions concerning a book's content status. 2. That three checkboxes indicating whether or not a book has "strong language", "descriptions of sexual situations" and "violence" either replace the current method of rating a book as adult or not, or be developed in addition to the current adult rating structure. 3. That the results of these checkboxes be placed prominently on the new books list, most popular books list and book searches, any screen that shows multiple books as well as on the book information screen. 4. That options can be configured in My Account, so that a user can elect not to be presented with titles that have been marked as containing strong language, explicit descriptions of sex or violence. and 5. That Bookshare publish guidelines, including, but not necessarily limited to a complete list of words which the tools consider to indicate adult content, for volunteers to employ when making these designations, so that as much as possible of the subjectivity can be removed. Judy s, co-chair, VAT To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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