Agreed, Most of my clients are either really really young or really really old. I know that the kids will eventually get to a point where they browse dialog boxes and read help files and listen for short keys and all those wonderful things. Unless I fail at my job that is which hopefully will not happen. But for older people who don't care about the mechanics of how operating systems work and just want a quick and easy step by step approach to place marking, they would be intimidated by the process as it is. Erik Burggraaf Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be at the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and circulating for the rest of the day. http://www.erik-burggraaf.com 888-255-5194
On 2010-05-28, at 8:31 AM, Martin Thomas Schrott wrote: > Aaron, > > but wouldn't it really be possible to add some basic placemarker > functionality, that could be used by beginners or as mentioned by children? > Just an additional marker, that only can exist once and is automatically > removed from the old position when the marker is set again? > > This would allow children to just set the marker where they want without > editing or removing something. > > Not as a replacement just as an additional marker? > > Or isn't such a scenario possible? > > (just my thoughts) > cheers, > Martin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Aaron Smith > To: erik burggraaf > Cc: jim grimsby Jr. ; gw-info > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 2:19 PM > Subject: Re: Place markers. > > Mike responded to this thread yesterday with the answer. Simple select an > existing placemarker from your list of placemarkers. Once you do that, the > information for that placemarker is available for editing, just like you were > creating a new one. This functionality has been in place since the inception > of placemarkers. > > Aaron > > On 5/28/2010 8:07 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >> >> You are right. That was basicly my question to the list was, "isn't there >> an easy way to do this". >> >> I've read that section of the manual at least several times and it hasn't >> told me what I wanted. >> >> OK, here's a request for the next release of window-eyes. Can we please >> have a new key stroke to quickly update a place marker? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be at >> the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and circulating >> for the rest of the day. >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> 888-255-5194 >> >> On 2010-05-27, at 10:11 PM, jim grimsby Jr. wrote: >> >>> hi if you review the section of the manual it will show how to edit the >>> place marker. I think you will find that in the ccase you talking about >>> removing and adding a new one is going to be easyer but to each his own. >>> >>> >>> From: erik burggraaf >>> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:01 AM >>> To: jim grimsby Jr. >>> Cc: gw-info >>> Subject: Re: Place markers. >>> >>> But that's just it. You don't take one marker out of a book and put a new >>> one in. You just move the marker you have already from where you picked >>> up, to where you left off. >>> >>> The same should be true of window-eyes place markers. My client is 8. >>> She's not really interested in the mechanics of place marking. I can teach >>> her what the various options do, but she isn't going to fool around with a >>> two step process of emersion into a dialog box just to mark her place in a >>> book. >>> >>> There has to be a better way. >>> >>> Erik Burggraafhttp://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>> 888-255-5194 >>> >>> On 2010-05-26, at 9:14 PM, jim grimsby Jr. wrote: >>> >>>> why after all you set the new marker so you don't need the old one. it is >>>> like taking one marker out of the book to put the new one in. it is also >>>> the standard for markers in word set the new one and delete the old oned. >>>> hth >>>> >>>> From: erik burggraaf >>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:35 PM >>>> To: jim grimsby Jr. >>>> Cc: gw-info >>>> Subject: Re: Place markers. >>>> >>>> messy. >>>> >>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>> Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be at >>>> the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and circulating >>>> for the rest of the day. >>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>> 888-255-5194 >>>> >>>> On 2010-05-26, at 10:15 AM, jim grimsby Jr. wrote: >>>> >>>>> hi, add the new place marker the same way you addedd the first one. now >>>>> tab to the list of place markers set and remove the one you don't need. >>>>> hth >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> From: erik burggraaf >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 5:29 AM >>>>> To: jim grimsby Jr. >>>>> Subject: Re: Place markers. >>>>> >>>>> I have one. >>>>> >>>>> One of my clients is an 8 year old girl. I've just started teaching her >>>>> to read books on her braille display. She got a book from the cnib >>>>> library website, and off we went. >>>>> >>>>> When it came time to stop reading I set her up a place marker. when we >>>>> went back later to read from where we left off, it went fine. >>>>> >>>>> I had a problem though because when I tried to update the place marker >>>>> for the new position in the book I couldn't figure it out. So, any ideas >>>>> about convenient ways to update place markers? >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>>> Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be >>>>> at the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and >>>>> circulating for the rest of the day. >>>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>>> 888-255-5194 >>>>> >>>>> On 2010-05-24, at 9:33 PM, jim grimsby Jr. wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> hi place markers were introduced in window-eyes 7.0. >>>>>> if you are using 7.11 still you should update to 7.2. >>>>>> to learn more about place markers see section 19.15: Place markers in >>>>>> the window-eyes manual. after reading this if you still have questions >>>>>> let us know. >>>>>> >>>>>> From: Anita >>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 5:55 PM >>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>> Subject: Place markers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi list, >>>>>> what is the place marker feature, and how does it work in >>>>>> Window-Eyes? Is it available in 7.11? >>>>>> Anita >>>>>> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender >>>>>> only. 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