Re: Survey: Preferred Help Format
Damien Sykes <damien@...>
Hi,
I know how to use CHM. But it seems that the CHM viewer is deteriorating.
It’s not that we don’t know how to use it (granted there may be some who don’t),
but my friend can’t read content in CHM documents that I compile (the actual
HTML content is just showing a blank page for him on every item), and it seems
to be the 64-bit version of the viewer gives me a treeview of items that NVDA
reads as “unknown”. I find the index useful in large programming references and
such, but usually a table of contents suggests a recommended order to read
something in. And that’s fairly hard if all you have is a treeview with a bunch
of items that read as “unknown” and that can’t even differentiate whether an
item is opened, closed or on its own...I only ever had that problem since
switching to 64-bit Windows. On 32-bit, I could read CHM files with absolutely
no issues whatsoever.
Cheers.
Damien. From: Gene
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Survey: Preferred Help Format I haven't used PDF to any extent. Isn't HTML
mostly used now? Whatever the case, if people have problems using CHM,
that's another instance of poor instruction or of people picking up Windows and
other learning not in an organized manner. CHM is just as easy to use as
HTML if you know how to use it. I won't go into how to use it in this
message, but it's a question of knowing how to use it. and knowing
how to work with a treeview, an essential piece of knowledge for CHM help, is
important to know in other contexts. I'm not blaming people for not
knowing how to use CHM help for whatever reason or reasons. But it is
worth knowing.
CHM not only has a contents treeview, it has a
search function and an index function as well. I run into a CHM help
system now and then and it is an advantage for blind people to know how to use
it.
Gene
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From: Tony Ballou
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Survey: Preferred Help Format Hi, Perhaps either the .chm or .html versions would be best because they are what we as blind users are most familiar with. If I had to choose one over the other though, the .chm file version was good for me for the longest time and it's more of a preference thing than anything else. you get use to the .html version eventually. Tony On 12/11/2017 9:44 AM, tonea.ctr.morrow@...
wrote:
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