[nabs-l] accessible books

[Karl Martin Adam]

The problem with word documents is they often don't keep the 
original page numbers from the book, so if you have to cite it, 
you can't.  PDF is better, but OCR software often messes up with 
those.  I think chemistry will be particularly problematic 
because of the subscripts and superscripts, so it might be worth 
your while getting that book professionally transcribed or at 
least making sure your DSS office has someone go through the book 
and proof read it.  You'll also need to get someone to write out 
descriptions of the diagrams and maybe the pictures in your 
anthro book especially if you're talking about physical 
anthropology where you have to know about things like skeletal 
structure in different homonins.

Hope this helps,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Anna Givens <annajee82 at gmail.com>,National Association of 
Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:36:47 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible books

Hi, I've been having them do Microsoft Word for me. Or PDF 
usually works.

Sent from my iPhone 6 Using VoiceOver

 On Dec 8, 2014, at 18:28, Anna Givens via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> 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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