[B-Greek] online Greek texbook and classes - help and advicesought

Sarah J. Blake sarah at growingstrong.org
Tue Apr 12 13:29:36 EDT 2011


Please, all, use Unicode, especially if you are poting documents online.

Non-Unicode fonts do not work with Screen readers for people with visual 
impairments at all--what we "see" is your English keystrokes. Talk about 
difficulty learning Greek! It is one thing for an advanced learner to 
transliterate as we do on this list, but it is something a first-year 
learner should never have to do. This is something that my professor and I 
went through when I took first-year Greek--we could not trade documents 
because he could read mine and I could not read his which were in BW fonts. 
The next time we had a blind student in class, I retyped all of the exams 
for her.

It does not surprise me that your IT people are clueless about typing in 
Greek. Ask them to sit down with you and learn a few things. It should be 
part of their job--not to learn Greek but to learn what you need to install 
software correctly and make sure that it works. They can help you understand 
the process of doing this and stick around long enough to make sure that 
your Greek characters are appearing correctly. It should be a great 
partnership.

My co-presenter and I will be talking more about how to build these 
partnerships with IT professionals and others as part of our paper at SBL: 
"Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Biblical Language Scholars Who Are 
Blind." Please come and hear more.

Sarah J. Blake
Personal correspondence: sjblake at growingstrong.org
http://www.growingstrong.org

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