[gui-talk] OpenBook

[Joel Deutsch]

I thought Beth included the subscribe email address. I guess not. Try this:

openbook-users-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

Hope this works for you,
joel

wub
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jaybee" <jayjohnson62 at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] OpenBook


Hi.  I attempted to subscribe to that list but did not find a subscribe
link.  Can you tell me the proceedure for signing up?  Thanks in advance.
Jesse
"To err is human; to forgive divine  (Alexander Pope, 1688.")
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] OpenBook


> 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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