[Electronics-talk] accessible books

[George]

Hi Anna,

If you need to keep the original format of the text, RTF or DOC should 
be ok for materials written in English. I prefer to use txt when the 
text layout is not important to me. However you might have problems with 
materials written in Spanish if you use Ansi format, depending on the 
system you use (of course no problem if you use Spanish Windows).

In Spanish, there are some special characters (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, 
etc), which might be translated into other characters or into characters 
without the special marks and, when this happens, it's very annoying.
You should check the format you intend to use first to know if it will 
work with Spanish, particularly.
Changes can occur depending on your computer syystem or on the system of 
the computer used for the format translation of the books.
If you decide to use txt format, Unicode (E.G. UTF8) might be safer than 
ansi.

I don't use Braille displays, but I assume that you will need to make 
some adjustments to get Spanish correctly displayed, such as selecting 
the Spanish Braille table.

You might need or prefer different text formats for different textbooks 
depending on their subjects, though.

HTH

On 2014/12/09 10:28, Anna Givens via Electronics-talk wrote:
> I am wondering what format my college books need to be in in order for
> me to be able to use JAWS to read them and also use my Braille sense
> to read them.  I am going to take Spanish and Chemistry and
> anthropology in the spring and want to have access in audio and
> braille.  But I don't know if there is a specific way the books have
> to be scanned or put into a certain format for me to access them on
> the comp and the braille sense.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Anna
>
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