I am astonished at the advice you have received from Sight and Sound they are completely incorrect and clearly do not fully understand the product that they are supporting. This is an easy and efficient way of using FSReader and as you will see from the label the open with dialogue adopts was clearly intended to be used this way. I have just set up the association again to make sure it still works and it is absolutely fine and easy to do. I did this with Jaws 16 on Windows 7 64bit but have been doing this for years so will work also on earlier versions of Jaws.
1. Find a daisy book folder. 2. Highlight the ncc.html file. Pressing N will normally do this. 3. Bring up the application menu with the application key or shift F10. 4. Select open with 5. On the sub menu select choose default program.6. Tab to the check box which says always use this program to open files of this type and uncheck this. This is important as you do not want FSReader to open all html files.
7. Tab to browse and press enter.8. You will be in a open dialogue focused on your Program Files folder. Navigate to Freedom Scientific, press enter to enter that folder then similarly on FS FS Reader, then 3.0 then finally highlight FSReader.exe.
9. Now tab to open and press enter. Your Daisy Book will open in FSReader.In future when you want to open a Daisy Book in Windows Explorer simply find the Daisy Book, open the folder, press n to jump to the ncc.htm. file, press application key and then H for open with and the first option on the open with menu will be called Daisy Book Application. Hitting enter on that will open the Book in FSReader.
David Griffith 10:46, Peter Bentley wrote:
Thanks David, you confirmed what I understood.Curious though as to how you managed to get FS reader to appear within your open with choices. I wasn’t sure where to find it when looking to make it to the default program and Sight and Sound weren’t able to help – they said it was not possible to do it that way and that I should open it from within the Reader.Peter*From:*access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *David Griffith*Sent:* 10 February 2015 23:29 *To:* access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [access-uk] Re: DAISY book construction.Generally the existence of smil files and NCC.html is a indication that this is a Daisy Book. What I do to check the integrity of the book is to test it in the Free PC FSReader app which is bundled with Jaws. As long as you have installed a Jaws version, even in 40 minute demo mode you will have access to FS Daisy reader. It works fine with NVDA for example.I use the open with dialogue on NCC.html file and point it at FS Reader. If this loads the book ready for reading in FS Reader you will have the legitimate Daisy status confirmed.David Griffith On 10 Feb 2015, at 11:58, Peter Bentley <bentleypdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bentleypdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: A strange question perhaps but looking at the contents of a book folder how would you determine whether it was or was not a daisy BOOK? Putting it another way, if it contains .smil files and an ncc.html file along with mp3 files, would it not be a DAISY book? I ask this because it is being suggested that a particular book of this construction will not read within the Go Read app because it is an MP3 book. Peter