[Nfb-krafters-korner] bookshare and descriptions

[Deborah Armstrong]

  think she meant Politically correct" when she said PC.


Right now only Learning Ally does descriptions. Bookshare has some 
funding to research doing descriptions but only a few volunteers who 
scan books add descriptions just because they like doing so. And mostly 
that's in children's books.


Reading a book on the computer is better than Braille if you want to 
search through it, your Braille skills aren't good, or you have a 
Braille display so it's in Braille anyway when you need it.


I have great Braille skills but I was lucky to learn it at aged five. 
Some of us aren't that lucky!


And I keep lots of books on my computer to make searching easy. If I 
want a crockpot recipe for pea soup for example, searching the computer 
for pea soup is pretty fast. It is harder for the less geeky of us to 
get all this to work well, just as some knitters never drop a stitch 
some of us are better than others at making the computer dance.



--Debee




On 7/29/2016 5:45 PM, Terry Powers via Nfb-krafters-korner wrote:
> Cathy F makes it sound like it is better to read a book shair book on the computer than have a braille copy.
> If there are no descriptions in the braille book, then how are there going to be any on the Book Shair copy?
>
> Terry P.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> To: Krafters Korner nfb <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Catherine jacobse <cjacobse at telus.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Trying again with my Horizons query
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> Terry,
> Some of the craft books are more descriptive than others.  But there are definitely some that are less than useless for screen reader users.  Hope this is pc.
> If you are taking a hadley class, it won’t cost anything to look at the choices.  I found the books easy to download and copy to my vr stream in other books folder.
> Catherine.
>> On Jul 29, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Terry Powers via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> How is Book shair going to help with pictures and diagrams?
>>
>> Terry P.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cathy
>> Flesher via Nfb-krafters-korner
>> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 7:28 PM
>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
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>> Cc: Cathy Flesher <flowersandherbs at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Trying again with my Horizons query
>>
>> Hi Debee,
>> To answer your question <smile>
>> I have borrowed a number of the Horizons for the Blind books on loom
>> knitting and none of them had descriptions of the pictures included in
>> the book. It was plain text in grade 2 braille. so, if you can get the
>> same book on bookshare, then I would do so. However, Horizons will
>> allow you in some cases, to borrow before you purchase a book. It depends on what book it is.
>>
>> BTW, wow, that is something that you are one of the first 20 members
>> of bookshare. Also, thank you for helping to make so many books
>> available for us to read.
>>
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