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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Rockbox FAQ for the blindRE: Rockbox FAQ for the blind
From: rinty <rinty_at_freeuk.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:27:38 +0100 Hi, both of Aman's suggestions are fine. Rob -----Original Message----- From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: 24 June 2004 02:58 To: 'Glenn Ervin at Home'; 'Rockbox development' Subject: RE: Rockbox FAQ for the blind Hi, Glenn. I like your second change. As to the first one, I knew this was going to come up <laugh>. I don't like the word fully, either, but want to have an acknowledgment in there that this unit doesn't beep when you hit a key, like the Rio Volts or Victor players do. Two suggestions. How about The Rockbox team are justifiably proud of Rockbox's role in making the Archos Jukebox the only talking hard-drive based MP3 player on the market. No fully there, as you can see. Alternatively The Rockbox team are justifiably proud of Rockbox's role in making the Archos Jukebox the only accessible and talking hard-drive based MP3 player on the market. This is what being an English major does to you <sigh>. Aman 2004 9:15 PM To: Rockbox development Subject: Re: Rockbox FAQ for the blind 2 changes to Aman's changes: I would not say : "fully accessible to the blind, " But I would say: "which offers the Blind access to many of its features" because it is not really fully accessible. Also, As you down arrow to general settings, and right arrow, you only need to up arrow once for "voice. I would offer the directions as such: F1 down arrow twice right arrow once up arrow once right arrow twice up arrow once left arrow 4 times to exit Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aman Singer" <aman_at_asinger.net> To: "'Rockbox development'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:04 PM Subject: RE: Rockbox FAQ for the blind Hi, Christie. Very nice FAQ, and it's a great idea I don't know if I should be editing text, or even if I can, so I'll do the pasting here and you can tell me to edit it or do so yourself, as you wish. You said This is an attempt to answer questions frequentlly asked by blind Rockbox users. The Rockbox team are justifiably proud of Rockbox's role in making the Archos Jukebox the only blind-accessible MP3 player on the market, but there are several unique problems that blind users have to contend with. I'd replace this with This is an attempt to answer questions frequently asked by blind Rockbox users. The Rockbox team are justifiably proud of Rockbox's role in making the Archos Jukebox the only hard-drive based MP3 player on the market fully accessible to the blind, but there are several unique problems that blind users have to contend with. There are fully accessible flash and CD based players (four times the cost, three quarters of the functionality, one eightieth to one quarter the storage space), so the above isn't so. Also, frequently is misspelled. When describing the units, you don't mention the jacks. I'd have liked to see that when I got both my units, and would have absolutely loved to see it had I not had a sighted person around at the time. For the FM recorders and the Recorder V2s, There are four jacks, two on the left side of the unit near the lower left corner, and two on the right side of the unit near the lower right corner. On the left side, the jack that is closer to the corner is the line in jack. The jack which is further away from the corner is the headphone jack. On the right side, the jack that is closer to the corner, and is, at least on my unit, part of the lower right bumper, is the AC adaptor in jack. The jack above that, which is small and rectangular, is the USB jack. For the recorder V1 and player units On the bottom side panel of the unit, there is a long rectangular jack which is the USB connection. To the left of that is the line-in jack. To the right of the USB jack is the AC adaptor jack. On the top side panel of the unit, there are two jacks. For the player, the jack on the left, near the left upper bumper, is the headphone jack. The one on the right is the line-out jack. For the recorder, the one on the left, near the left upper bumper, is the headphone jack. The one on the right, near the right upper bumper, is the digital line-out jack. The above are descriptions I wrote a while ago. Feel free to edit or dispose of them as you wish. You say, in your button descriptions for the recorders, that the off button is the "Rightmost of the two buttons located below and to the left of the navigation controls". You also say that the stop/off button is "Leftmost of the two buttons located below and to the left of the navigation controls". On my recorder V1, the buttons are oriented vertically. That is, the on button is directly above the stop/off button. Only on the V2/FMs is one to the left of another. However, even on the V2/FM, one is above the other. You might want to use that, instead of right and left, or make a new section for original recorders. You said is no way to tell the difference bettwen these models from the outside without sight, but installing the recorderfm version of the Rockbox firmware is I'd replace that with is no way to tell the difference between these models from the outside without sight, but installing the FM recorder version of the Rockbox firmware is Between is misspelled, and recorderfm is pronounced recorderfum. FM recorder brings it closer to a more usual pronunciation, and the FM firmware is labelled fmrecorder on the daily page. You said menu, down * 2, right, up * 4, right, up, right, up, play * 2. I'd replace this with menu Down Down right Up up up up right up right up Play Play The screen reader will say "play star two" or "up star 4", which may be confusing to some. If you want to put it in a less space hungry format, you could say menu, down twice, right, up four times, right, up, right, up, play twice. Further, I'd add a statement that menu should probably be waited for. That is, there should be a delay between hitting menu and starting the sequence of direction keys. Again, nice idea and good work. Can't think of any questions right now, but they will come <g>. Aman -----Original Message----- From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Christi Alice Scarborough Sent: June 23, 2004 5:50 PM To: Rockbox development Subject: Rockbox FAQ for the blind This seemed like a good idea. Thanks to the wonder of Wiki it's up on the website linked off the docs page. http://rockbox.haxx.se/twiki/bin/view/Main/BlindFAQ/ I'm not blind myself, so if I goofed in some way, please let me know. Hopefully the tables are still parsable sensibly from a screen reader. Suggestions for questions I've missed also welcome. 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