As usual, Esther, your response was delightfully thorough and very helpful. The article I will be translating is by a blind user of the iPhone who wants to chronicle her experience with the device and what strategies she employs to accomplish specific tasks. Understanding the German is absolutely no problem. I won't need to refer to the German documentation at all. I just want to make sure that all nomenclature in my English translation is spelled correctly and properly translated.
I'll drink a cup of coffee to your health, all the while saying "Thank you." Mike On 4,Dec,2011, at 9:56 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Mike, > > John Panarese's MacForTheBlind web site's documentation page has RTF versions > of these manuals. Just go to: > http://macfortheblind.com/documentation > (Type in the four words "Mac for the blind" as all lower case, without > spaces, and add the ".com" extenstion, then type a slash and append the word > "documentation".) > > However, I think that an easier way to check the English and German > equivalents for terms in the iOS 5 VoiceOver User's Guide is to use the > accessible HTML version for the iPhone OS 5 in English and in German. The > same sections only differ by using "en" (for English) instead of "de" (for > German) in the URL address. > > So, for example, the English version of the iPhone OS 5 user guide is: > http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/ > while the German version uses the same address with "de" substituted for "en": > http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/de/ > > This also works for individual sections. The section on "Accessibility" of > the User Guide for the iPhone is: > http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2c13.html > > The same section on "Bedienungshilfen" in the German version of the User > Guide can be found by replacing the "en" in the previous address with "de": > > Using this substitution I can find an example of how double tapping to unlock > the iPhone screen is translated, even though I don't speak German, just by > finding the corresponding text to the section of the VoiceOver User Guide in > English and in German. For example, under the section of "Using VoiceOver" > is the description: > > Unlock iPhone > Select the Unlock button, then double-tap the screen. > > On the same page of the German version of the User Guide, "Verwenden von > VoiceOver", is the description: > > Entsperren des iPhone > Wählen Sie den Schalter „Entsperren“ aus und heben Sie die Sperre durch > Doppeltippen auf den Bildschirm auf. > > The two different translations are on the pages: > http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2329.html > and for the German: > http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/de/iph3e2e2329.html > > I keep a TextEdit window open to paste in the URLs and to change "en" to > "de", and then to find the corresponding text on each page to copy. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Dec 4, 2011, at 06:04, Michael Busboom wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have been asked to translate a rather lengthy article about the iPhone and >> VoiceOver from German into English. Though I am looking forward to >> translating the article, I was wondering if there was an RTF version of the >> IOS5 VoiceOver manual that I could output to a Braille display. I want to >> be sure that I get all of the terminology correct, both in terms of accuracy >> as well as spelling. A very simple example might be: "double tap" or >> "double tap." >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Mike > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
