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Re: [orca-list] Bible Study Software

Hello, Janina!
When I use magnification I actually use a Bible study program called Xiphos which is formerly known as GnomeSword. Xiphos is a full of features, and has much to offer because many things (such as books, commentaries, personal prayer lists, etc) can be quickly and easily added in as modules through a pretty simple module management system. It has a lot to offer, and be even better if it could made fully accessible to Orca. I am going to post a message on their mailing list soon and ask about this. I do not know much about programming, but it does not *seem* like it would be too difficult to implement accessibility. They already have a feature which uses speech synthesizers to allow one to have different modules (books, Bibles, etc) read aloud, so I am sure that accessibility to Orca users should not be too difficult. 

Oh, one online resource which seems to be pretty accessible to Orca is here:

http://www.youersion.com/

Thanks for the input, Janina!

Kind regards.

On 06/15/2012 08:12 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:

Hi, Robert:

I don't know the software you refer to. I can tell you that I spend a
fair amount of time each week studying various Bible translations and
commentaries (though to a lesser degree). I rely pretty exclusively on web based resources.

My main sources are:

1.)     The Bible Gateway Site:
        http://www.biblegateway.com/

2.)     Google. Yes, plain old Google, which I prefer to access via:
        http://duckduckgo.com

        I find it's quite possible to get very good results by
        specifying your search cleverly, i.e. you can restrict to a
        single site, you can use grouping and not statements, etc., etc.

Now, the kind of software you're after may be something the folks at
Cross Wire might like to help create. Check out:

        http://www.crosswire.org/

        To my knowledge they don't have much sensitivity to a11y issues,
        but that's always something that can change, of course.

        hth

        Janina

Robert Cole writes:

Hello, Timothy.

I appreciate your input.

using grep with plain text files is definitely a great way to go,
but there are some features in Xiphos which are very helpful to me.
It may be possible to accomplish the same thing using grep and text
files, but I do not have the experience to do so right now.

I had the privilege of preaching sermons at a local retirement home
here in town for about three years. I have since begun attending a
different church, and I have been asked to bring messages to a
nursing home in town. I like Xiphos because I can have commentaries
linked to the Bible which I am studying. I actually only use one
Bible for study, but I like to read through different commentaries
to learn more information about different passages of Scripture. I
also like Xiphos because I can have many different books,
dictionaries, and commentaries in one central location (e.g. The
works of Josephus, Matthew Henry's commentary, The Treasury of
David, and so forth). Xiphos also allows for making notes (which is
not too necessary a feature). This is why I use it so frequently as
it really helps when putting notes together for messages.

There are some parts of Xiphos which are quite accessible, but the
panes for the Bible, commentaries, and dictionaries are not very
accessible. If I remember correctly, xiphos has an option for these
different panes to be read aloud, but I am not sure how much control
(i.e. going backward and forward in the texts) it offers to users. I
will have to look into this. I think that if could be made more
accessible, Xiphos would be a great program for study.

In any case, I am sorry for the long e-mail. I do appreciate yoru
input, and I just wanted to give more background as concerning my
situation adn what I use Xiphos for.

Pleae take care, and thanks for your reply.

On 06/06/2012 03:57 PM, timothyhobbs seznam cz wrote:

What exactly are you looking for in bible study software?  It
seems to me that the major features, like side by side viewing
across language boundaries, are not exactly meaningfull in a non
visual environment.  If you want to be able to look up by chapter
and verse, grep and a plain text file works surprisingly well.
Look at the man page for grep, you can have it give you context of
several lines.

Timothy


---------- PÅvodnà zprÃva ----------
Od: Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>
Datum: 7. 6. 2012
PÅedmÄt: [orca-list] Bible Study Software

    Hello, everyone.

    does anyone here know of any Bible study software which si
    accessible to
    Orca? I use Xiphos with magnification, but it does not seem to
    accessible when ti comes to Orca. Would anyone else here have any
    other
    recommendations?

    I would appreciate any input on this one. I am going to try to
    write to
    the Xiphos developers, as xiphos is a great program and it would be
    wonderful if it could be made fully accessible to Orca.

    Thanks for your input, and take care.
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