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
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>>> "All that is gold does not glitter.
>>> Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
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