[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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