Hey Paul, I also think that the bookmarks should work with all documents, not just documents in keyword. I was thinking about marking some parts of a book I was reading in whatever web braille is in, and ks would not let me do it.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Paul Henrichsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:20:52 -0800 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] wireless cards for BNQT >Hi, Terry. I like your suggestions. I especially like the one about >numbered bookmarks. We could indeed have 100 or maybe even more. That would >be great. >At 1/27/2004, you wrote: >>I agree with what you said. I'd rather use KeyWord than my PC to create >>documents because it's designed to meet my needs using my strengths. >>I believe there are some improvements which could be made to KeyWord so we >>could do more things with it: >>1. the ability to change case >>2. the ability to see page numbers displayed >>3. the support for translating bold and underlining using the 4-6 dots >>instead of the code >>4. the ability to import and export .dxp and .dxb files >>5. the ability to save documents in true MS Word, not rich text format >>6. the ability to create true outlines >>7. the ability to create running headers or footers >>8. the ability to tell my printer I want to print something from the top >>tray instead of the bottom one >>9. one-inch margins all around >>10. numbered bookmarks instead of letters, so we could create 100 bookmarks >>11. the ability to create flush right with leader dots >>12. the ability to create footnotes. >>When I need to use any of these specific tools, then I must go to my PC and >>use another word processor. I usually end up using Duxbury, because it's >>the most user-friendly word processor I've got in this thing. I've been too >>afraid to buy either Word or WordPerfect because I'm not sure how well I >>would get along with either of them using a screen reader. WP was my >>favorite word processor in the DOS days, but it doesn't seem to be supported >>by screen readers as well as Word is and I hate to think of paying the steep >>price for Word. >>Another thing I would like to see is a good template for addressing an >>envelope, the kind used for business letters, which has the return address >>at the top left-hand corner. I haven't been successful in modifying the >>envelope template to include the return address. If someone has succeeded >>in doing this and prints envelopes using the BN, please let me know. >>I don't expect the BN to ever take the place of my PC. My PC can probably >>handle email and web pages faster than the BN but I haven't tested keyweb ye >>t. My past experiences with keymail have been disappointing but perhaps it >>has been improved in version 5. When I get time, I'll have to see. >>It's a mistake to believe the BN will take the place of a PC or that a PC >>can take the place of the BN. It's not realistic. >>Terri, Amateur radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, >>California >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Ann Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:06 AM >>Subject: re: [Braillenote] wireless cards for BNQT >>> Hi all, >>> I realize that some may disagree with me, but perhaps some further >>> discussion about philosophy is in order here. I have used products >>> which came of both the blindness and the sighted philosophy. Let me >>> explain. >>> A device which is designed for the blind in mind, as Jonathan says, is >>> one which takes our blindness into consideration and expands upon our >>> strengths so that we get a product or device that is made for us, not >>> a device which is made for the sighted and then retrofit to suit the >>> needs of the blind. >>> There is, for example, a wonderful voice output system for Linux >>> called Emacspeak. It makes no bones about the fact that it is >>> designed with the blind user in mind. It is not graphical. It is >>> text based. It is command driven. It is usercentric. Its creator >>> T.V. Raman says that if you take away the Emacspeak desktop, it >>> renders the user powerless. Here is his exact quote. >>> "Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern >>> software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without adversely >>> affecting the continued performance of the computer. These same >>> tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped >>> functioning altogether." >>> Seems to me that PDI has that same philosophy. From everything I've >>> read on the list here, those of you who have been without your BN's >>> stop functioning. >>> Now, I have also used and am using Windows, an OS which has been >>> adapted for blind users. It works well enough, but it is a patch-up >>> job, a fix, if you will. Screen readers are designed to allow the >>> user to access everything which the sighted do, but the user must do >>> so in the same way as do the sighted. There is no provision made for >>> our strengths. We must bend. We must integrate. We must make the >>> graphical interface understandable to non-seeing imagination. Yes, it >>> works. Yes, you can use off-the-shelf software, but you are not as >>> efficient because you have an entire layer of tasks you must complete >>> before you can accomplish anything. >>> Frankly, if I can access the same materials as my sighted peers and in >>> the same efficient way without worrying about interacting with a >>> graphical environment, then I'm all for it! Give me something that >>> works for me as a blind person, not something somebody cobbled >>> together so that I could access something. It's called universal >>> design folks, universal design! >>> If the BN had USB and Wireless connectivity, and if they added FTP and >>> Telnet, then I'd be a totally happy camper. >>> Ann P. >>> -- >>> Ann K. Parsons >>> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp >>> "All that is gold does not glitter. >>> Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT >>> ___ >>> 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 >>___ >>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 >Paul Henrichsen ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><home.pacbell.net/paulh52 >___ >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
