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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

FSreader is awesome.  I use it every day at work for business books and trainers' publications.  It lets you 
navigate by chapter, section and subsection if the book is divided that way.  A Linux-based Daisy Player that 
could do that would be amazing because you could navigate the book/publication in a non-linear way.  If it 
can do Epub, PDF and other eBook formats, it would surpass Fsreader which only does Daisy.  It would be 
something along the lines of the Voicestream Reader for iPhone, iPad and so forth which is, in my humble 
opinion, the single most amazing eBook reader targeted at people with reading disabilities on the market 
today.  

Thanks.
Alex M

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From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of kendell clark
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:09 PM
To: Orca List
Subject: [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players

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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 -----BEGIN 
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