Ok. Well, at the time being a reader is not aplicible, and besides Sam's provided the text in electronic format, but not one that is cross platform accessible. It seams to me that if they can go through the trouble of putting it in pdf they can offer a ascii text version. However, they are worried I will hijack the book or something. I am still trying to talk to them, and see if there is some sort of agreement. Problem is I am always getting low ranking minions, and I really need to bump it up the chain of command. ----- Original Message ----- From: Geoff Shang <gshang@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:24 AM Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files. > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Maurice A. Mines wrote: > > > is this person a colage student herein the us? if he is he shud be asking > > fore reader services. thats how I get round this problem. > > I don't mean to offend anybody, but this is just not good enough. It seems > stupid in this day and age to have to get a sighted person to read you > something that was produced electronically and I for one wouldn't stand for > it. It's bad enough that sighted people ask you if you have someone who > can see to read it to you, heaven forbid that we have blind people > advocating the same thing. > > OK OK, so if you really need access to something, at least it gets the job > done. but I'd be persuing many other avenues first. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
