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The open source community should not be surprised that members of the disability community are skeptical of and angry with it. The open source community, in release after release, has not written accessible software, even as corporations have. By cr…
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The report errors box remains gray. I disabled the other extensions, and something has seriously messed up my sound system. First, Dragon NaturallySpeaking crashed. After multiple restarts, I have got it working, but the quality of the sound i…
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My apologies for being abrasive. Please understand that virtually every time I have ever interacted with a librarian, IT person, software maker, or database vendor about trying to fix a problem accessing electronic databases while using Dragon, they…
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Dan: I don't understand programming. But I do use both Dragon and Firefox every single day and I almost never encounter these problems. (At the risk of confusing this thread again, the only time I have had this happen in an online application was wh…
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I get that. Searching is one thing, but "reading" is another.Without the hidden text layer a disabled user can't "read" the document until it has been OCRrd. You and I can read it on-screen. What you don't understand is that many disabled people can…
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Dan. I still think there are differences in usability for people using assistive technology when searching, but let's shelve this discussion until I can give you specific examples (in any case this doesn't affect getting Zotero compatible with Drago…
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Respectfully, I am not wrong about PDFs. I may be wrong about the technical details (I am a historian), but I am not wrong about the usability issues. Use Proquest for 19th-century documents and see if there are no issues.
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Dan: Notes work fine. Fields do not. I checked on TinyMCE. I should've been more specific: having a disability doesn't necessarily affect whether one can search by keywords, but using assistive technology at the computer does. Here's how it wor…
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Here is what is happening when I use Zotaro: after I locate the mouse in the field and dictate text, the computer gets hung up. Sometimes this is for 5 to 10 seconds, usually it is indefinitely. At first I thought Zotaro was completely incompatible …
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The CHNM receives substantial funding from Federal agencies such as the NEH and IMLS. These agencies require grantees (such as Zotero) to conform with federal regulations on accessibility. The IMLS, for example, requires grantees to comply with the …