Lisa, I'm sure you left this out, but didn't mean to. The website is www.loc.gov/nls/braille. If you enter it like that, you are presented with your login. Press the dot 4-chord, and after the Braille Braille, press it once more. Log in your user name. Press dot 4-chord to enter your password. Press dot 4-chord again. You'll be asked to wait. When you start looking at the site, press Enter at the online catalog. Press dot 4-chord nine times to get to the title. This is a little bit the long way about, but works. When you see the title, press dots 46-chord. You'll see examples. Press 46-chord again, you'll see "text input". Write in your title. Press 46-chord again to get to Keyword. Generally, I enter web braille in this spot. Press dots 46-chord until you see "search button". Press Enter. There are a couple of other ways, but this generally works every time.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [email protected] >Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:08:26 -0800 >Subject: [Braillenote] selecting material type from nls online catalog >Hi Everyone, >I posted about this a few days ago but received no responses. I'm trying to >use the online catalog on the NLS site. The address is >www.loc.gov/nls >Go under the search the online catalog section to find out where I'm talking >about. I used to have no problems using it when I was running KS 5.1 but >whatever. I'm not blaming KS 6.11 but it seems strange to me that this used >to work without any problems and now it doesn't work. Maybe there's a new >step I'm missing? >I have trouble with the combo boxes for the location and the material type. I >tried pressing space with dots 4-6 and backspace with dots 1-3 and that didn't >do anything. It checks the word all first in the location list and the >material type lists. All is the first word in each of these lists. I am not >allowed to choose any other choices in the list although the lists are >presented to me. I was thinking the way I used to select an item in a combo >box was to press enter on it. I got those chord commands that I mentioned >above from the manual and thought they were helping. >I'm just concerned something was changed with the upgrade that may not have >been included in the manual. Maybe I've forgotten how to select information >in combo boxes? This is confusing and frustrating. I wanted to download a >book for work. >I have not tried to use combo boxes on other Web sites if it doesn't work on >NLS I'm guessing it won't work on other sites. Maybe that's a negative >attitude but when something used to work so simply and now the sameproceedure >appears not to be applicable it just doesn't make sense. >Any ideas would be apreciated. Sorry if I seem to be complaining. >Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for your time and your help. >Lisa >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
