[nabs-l] Bookshare

Tue Nov 25 15:46:31 UTC 2014

The new site worked with the BrailleNote from day one.  Someone 
working at Bookshare erroneously sent out an e-mail a few days 
before the new site came on line saying that it wouldn't work 
with the BrailleNote, but Humanware sent out an e-mail right 
after that saying Bookshare was wrong and that you just have to 
turn scripting off in the BrailleNote web browser to make 
Bookshare work.  My guess is that the BrailleSense doesn't have 
the ability to disable scripting and that's the problem.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Nusbaum via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com>,National 
Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:19:27 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Bookshare

Interesting. One would think that, given that the BrailleSense 
runs more reliable and up-to-date software, it would be easier 
for Bookshare to fix the bugs associated with this notetaker. I 
could see the reasoning behind Bookshare's making the BrailleNote 
bugs a priorityâ€”that is, that K-12 students, who are among the 
most dedicated users of Bookshare, overwhelmingly use the 
BrailleNote
more than other notetakers. When customers started noticing that 
Bookshare wasn't working with the BrailleNote, Bookshare probably 
received a lot of feedback from students and TVI's who said they 
could only access the Web site on their BrailleNote and need that 
access for their classwork. BrailleSense users might also have 
more access to a computer with which they can download the book, 
so they might not have heard as many bug reports from these 
users. I don't think there's any money involved, but we can't be 
certain.

Chris Nusbaum, Vice President
Maryland Association of Blind Students
Coordinator of Social Media, National Federation of the Blind of 
Maryland
Twitter: @Chrisn98, @MDMDABS and @NFBMD

"Together, with love, hope and determination, we transform dreams 
into reality."

 On Nov 25, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Oddly enough, it also wasn't compatible with the BrailleNote 
line of
 notetakers, but they fixed that, unless the reason for it not 
working
 was different... call me a cynic, but it seems like we know 
which
 company is paying Bookshare more money.  :)

 I've been working around this by just downloading the books to 
my SD
 card from my laptop and putting the SD card back into the
 BrailleSense.  It's slightly less convenient, but it isn't a 
terrible
 hassle; I have had Bookshare since before the BrailleSense was 
around,
 so I really don't mind taking the extra time.

 What I do mind is that the new site had problems with both major 
lines
 of notetakers, and Bookshare saw fit to only remedy the problems 
for
 one line of product.  I know that the BrailleSense line has 
become
 more popular in the past several years, so why they wouldn't 
make the
 site work for both so all can have notetaker access to downloads 
just
 doesn't make sense to me.

 On 11/25/14, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> 
wrote:
 Hi Cherry,

 Bookshare is no longer compatible with the BrailleSense as of 
the
 update to there website a few weeks ago, or at least that's what
 it says on their page about what's new with the new website.

 Best,
 Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Cherry via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:01:57 -0600
 Subject: [nabs-l] Bookshare

 Dear members,
 I'm using the Braille Sense U2 and recently I cannot access
 Bookshare download on the Braille Sense anymore. Are any of you
 here having the same problem?
 Thanks.

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