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

[Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org>]

I didn't know wxWidgets was inaccessible on Linux.  Works nicely with
NVDA on Windows :)



On 18/11/2014 22:45, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> 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 t
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>   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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