Re: [orca-list] Podcasts and/or audio tutorials needed

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Actually, I'd considered some of those things and not others.  It is 
useful to hear the sound of somebody doing an install, though I don't 
think that tells you more than the written word whether the podcaster 
knows what he or she is doing.

As I've said before, thekey thing about audio is that it has to speak 
clearly what you're supposed to do, and probably character-by-character 
in some instances.  Glen's doubtless correct that character-by-character 
is not as important when beginning with the DUI, but even with that it 
will matter if you're typing a command in Gnome 3 point whatever.

As I wrote to Glenn off the list, I used tapes from what was then 
Recording for the Blind to learn COBOL for the job I was training for. 
I'd have preferred Braille, but there wasn't any, and the readers did a 
very good job, so that it was a lot like having Braille.  I therefore 
know the usefulness of well-done audio.

Al

On 9/6/2015 9:26 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Perhaps it's just me, but if I'm going to install something, I want to
> actually hear what it sounds like.  I want to know what the voice sounds
> like, how to navigate the menus, what the screen reader says, how to
> restart it, etc.  You can't really do that with the written word.  Also,
> I want to feel like the person who is guiding me through these things
> actually knows what they're talking about.  Even the best, most human
> sounding synthesizer can't do that.  It can only read out what's in the
> written document.
>
> Something else you haven't considered, but I know from experience is a
> real problem, is what do you do when you've booted the CD on your one
> and only computer and can't refer back to the documentation?  Once you
> know how to use Firefox in Orca, it's not a problem, but if you don't
> even know how to use Orca and how to navigate the desktop, how can you
> read the document?  If you have another computer, notetaker, Braille
> display with a memory, etc you're all set, but most of us (like me)
> don't.  Similarly, what if Linux doesn't have network drivers for your
> NIC and you can't use Firefox, Lynx or anything else online until you
> get the problem figured out?
>
> On 9/4/2015 10:00 AM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> > If they're using computers with Windows or the Mac, then the writings
> > could
> > be text or Word files or something else.  If they're using, say, an NLS
> > digital player, then you'd want to be sure the audio instructions are
> > very
> > clear when telling how to type anything.  The audio guide for
> > installing the
> > talking Arch system and getting it set up is very good, but even with
> > that I
> > needed some help from online documentation.
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