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

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: mike raspberryvi org, orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:22:09 -0600

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hi
Not all of them are. Some are, some aren't. It mostly depends on the
app that's using them. Dolphin emulator for example is almost
inaccessible. Just barely usable enough to set up the controllers and
launch games, but the game list is inaccessible. It might or might not
work in windows, last time I tried it I ran into the this program
can't start because etc etc.dll is not found, and didn't want to mess
with it
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/18/2014 05:16 PM, Mike Ray wrote:


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

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[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

he

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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Follow-Ups:
- Re: [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players
  - From: Alex Midence

References:
- [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players
  - From: kendell clark
- Re: [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players
  - From: Alex Midence
- Re: [orca-list] OT: my reasons for wanting daisy players
  - From: Mike Ray

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