[stylist] Poetry-reading Questions

[Dan Burke]

Braille, or refreshable Braille.

Bookshare poetry books are problematic with respect to extended lines
- that is, if a line goes beyond the space available, the practice is
to finish it below on an indented line.  This is a style that can be
set in save as Daisy or Duxbury, but it is fairly labor-intensive and
therefore never happens in Bookshare books.

Web Braille from NLS has a fair collection of beautifully formatted
electronic Braille poetry books.

NLS (or other) recordings of poetry are  not the same at all as a live
poetry reading; they just don't work for me somehow.
Screen reader - read line by line iwth the arrow keys to get the sense
of line breaks and such.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Dan

On 11/23/11, Homme, James <james.homme at highmark.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> The following is a bunch of questions that have been floating around in my
> head about reading poetry.
>
> If you use Braille, do you prefer to read poetry in Braille?
>
> Do you find that the poetry books from Bookshare are properly formatted?
>
> What has your experience been like when reading poetry from talking books?
>
> When reading poetry with a screen reader, do you have any strategies that
> help you get the feel for things like the format of individual lines,
> sentences that cross line boundaries, whole stanzas, and so forth?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Homme,
> Usability Services,
> Phone: 412-544-1810.
>
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