A question from a Linux new bee

[Dawes, Stephen]

Glad to here that this is not the case any longer. 
I was basing my comments on what I was told by an O'Reiley Rep. when the
initial O'Reiley collection was being set up by bookshare.

Janina, I will admit I am wrong for the record, so that you can mark the
date on the wall. :-)



Steve Dawes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: 2005 May 03 7:46 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: A question from a Linux new bee
> 
> Well, you're wrong. The source was certainly not flat ASCII. 
> BookShare has O'Reily's sgml and used scripts to transform the markup.
> 
> Dawes, Stephen writes:
> > I am aware of book share's O'riley's collection. I am also aware of 
> > how the collection was created. As I have been told, the source for 
> > the bookshare was flat text files. So this is going to have a 
> > significant impact on the mark-up of the text. I was think 
> of looking 
> > into safari to see if it would be any better. I know that 
> O'Riley has 
> > been a big advocate of making their publications available to the 
> > print disabled community in the past, so it doesn't surprise me to 
> > hear that the safari service is accessible.
> > 
> > 
> > Steve Dawes
> > Phone: (403) 268-5527
> > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
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> >  
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> > > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> > > Sent: 2005 May 03 8:44 AM
> > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> > > Subject: Re: A question from a Linux new bee
> > > 
> > > Hi, Stephen:
> > > 
> > > Dawes, Stephen writes:
> > > > Janina,
> > > > 
> > > > How accessible is O'Reily's Safari service?
> > > 
> > > I should point out that I've never been a subscriber, but 
> I did look 
> > > at their examples some months ago and found the service very 
> > > accessible.
> > > They use very clean html, imho, with docbook sgml on 
> their back end, 
> > > I believe.
> > > 
> > > However, I also think it important to point out that Book 
> Share has 
> > > access to all O'Reily titles, though their markup leaves 
> much to be 
> > > desired.
> > > 
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> different problem.
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