Re: [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players

[Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org>]

It never ceases to amaze me what a downer a lot of blind folks have on
Daisy.  I think it is a brilliant standard, err, two standards.

If I was writing a Daisy reader for Linux I would use wxWidgets to write
a GTK app that would also run on Windows.  And a command-line version
since the command-line is king.




On 18/11/2014 22:08, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> I thought I'd write in to see if anyone else shared my reasons for
> wanting a convenient daisy player. I won't talk about the cainteoir
> thing that's a separate thread. Back when I used windows, I used a
> program called fs reader to read my daisy books. I don't use windows
> anymore, but my fiance mellisa still does. If she wants to open a
> book, she will do: 1. Click the fs reader icon on the desktop. It
> opens, she press alt+f to open teh file menu, clicks 1, which is the
> last book she's read. Assuming fs doesn't screw up, which it will do,
> it opens the book in the exact place she left off, no messing around
> with firefox, etc. If I want to open a book, I have to: open the file
> manager at my daisy books folder. Navigate to the folder where my book
> is, which is not hard. Press enter on the xml file, and wait, the
> amount of time depends on how large the book is, for firefox to open.
> Hope orca will read the book, sometimes it won't until I restart
> firefox. Hope the book is marked up well enough that I can navigate by
> heading. If I want to mark my place, I set a bookmark with orca, which
> is really brilliant, by the way. I  wish all screen readers had this
> feature.  I have to do this every time I open a book, and hope ff
> decides to read the book. If the book is extremely large, sometimes it
> can take up to a minute before orca will read the page. I've gotten
> used to this, but a program like fs reader, but of course not
> proprietary, would really be convenient. I could then click on the
> icon, navigate to teh book list, pick a book, and open it, and have
> the cursor keep up with the navigation points. It's worth noting that
> if the book is marked up badly or not at all, a daisy reader won't be
> any better than firefox, but it will at the very least be faster with
> orca, and will allow me to keep a list of books. This is more out of
> convenience than anything. If the application is written well, it will
> automatically recognize new books and add them to the list, likewise
> with removing books. Does anyone else share my views? I've seen a lot
> of blind people who just don't seem that bothered about daisy, and
> that's fine, but it's the format lots and lots of sites for the blind
> use, and epub isn't here yet, so I need to be able to  handle it, and
> preferably with a minimum of fiddling. If firefox were not so slow
> this wouldn't be nearly as important an issue, but it hasn't really
> improved in this area. This is *not* orca's fault, but rather an issue
> of speed in firefox itself.
> This is off topic, so maybe people should email me off list so as not
> to flood the list? This has little to do with orca other than the fact
> that we'll be using orca to read the books
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
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Michael A. Ray
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Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

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