[gui-talk] OpenBook

[Joel Deutsch]

Laura,
I second Beth's suggestion. I subscribe to that mailing list myself, and 
although it's a light traffic list, there are a number of skillful Open Book 
users on it and it will make the perfect place for you to get this stuff 
together. I appreciate how frustrated you feel at the moment, but what 
you're experiencing isn't really indicative of how Open Book works, at all. 
There's something you must be missing, something that's going wrong but you 
have no way to know what it's supposed to be like. And by the way, the help 
documentation in Open Book is pretty systematically and articulately 
presented, too, but you seem not to have even realized that there's a menu 
line and all sorts of interface things. It isn't very much like Jaws at all, 
but presents more like a Windows application, and there just isn't any 
connection in terms of software culture between it and Jaws. It's the 
product of a company called Arkenstone, which sold Open Book to Freedom 
Scientific and, well, join that mailing list and start asking questions. 
It'll all start working out soon enough and you'll get underway.
Joel
work out experiencign whateer uwsers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beth Wright" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] OpenBook


Hi.

Don't know the answer to your question, but there's an Openbook users
mailing list you could subscribe to.  Go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openbook-users/

Beth Wright
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: <jawslite at freelists.org>; "Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK
Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>; "guispeak" <guispeak at freelists.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:58 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] OpenBook


> Hello all --
> I just purchased the latest version of OpenBook and installed it.  I did
> not
> install connect out loud or realspeak as I have jaws8.
>
> But I ran the program and it immediaitely started scanning and I couldn't
> stop it.  Furthermore, it doesn't behave like jaws in that I can't access
> menus or help of any kind.
> I am stumped as to how to work this thing.  There is a readme that hasn't
> been updated since 2004 and gives no directions on how to use it.
> There is a "Getting Started" audio CD that I started listening to, but it
> is
> full of stuff like registering the product and sounds as old as the
> readme -- it even refers to using the floppy authorization cd.
> I suppose I should have listened to the whole thing bu after 10 minutes
> with
> only limited information, I turned it off.
>
> That appears to be the only documentation there is for this thing.
> Am I missing something?
> Perhaps there was a document that got put away somewhere but I don't
> remember one.
>
> Can anyone point me to a good help file for OpenBook?
> Well, at least I know my scanner is working...*smile*
> TIA
> --le
>
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