RNIB Newsagent (previously known as NTNM) provide two types of eText publications; newspapers / magazines and television / radio network guides. This page describes how to read newspapers / magazines which can be found in the Library under the Newsagent directory.
The RNIB Newsagent eText task should be running. To find an eText publication from RNIB Newsagent to read, you need to move the focus to the Library control if you are not already there. To do that, press the 'Focus' [Tab] (3) key.
Press the 'Left' [left arrow] (4) key a few times until you hear a beep and a message indicating that you are at the top level (level 0) of the tree. The focus is on the RNIB Newsagent eText media directory. Press the 'Right' [right arrow] (6) key and you are placed in the Newsagent directory. This directory represents the remote RNIB Newsagent website which you cannot access without configuring the username and password given to you by RNIB Newsagent if you are a subscriber. Subscription to RNIB Newsagent is available to visually impaired users for a modest annual fee. (The username and password you need to obtain from RNIB Newsagent to enable you to read eText publications are those used to access the RNIB Newsagent eText download website. The RNIB Newsagent website is:
here
Setting SpeakOn to use the RNIB Newsagent eText username and password is explained in the Settings sub-section.
When you obtain a username and a password for the RNIB Newsagent website, you can use the Newsagent directory under the Library's 'RNIB Newsagent eText' media directory.
The Newsagent directory contains four sub-directories; Magazines by category, Magazines alphabetically, National newspapers and Regional newspapers.
With the focus on the Newsagent directory use the Up, Down, Right and Left keys to navigate the directory to the newspaper / magazine issue (and if relevant section) you want to read.
To start playing (reading), press the 'Select' [Enter] (5) key on the remote publication in focus.
The focus is moved automatically to the Player control. It is first downloaded and placed in the Current Reading directory and then loaded to the Player. The publication you downloaded is now in the Current Reading directory until you delete it.
The Player starts to read the publication. To stop reading, press the 'Select' key again.
With the 'Left' and 'Right' keys, you can select the navigation unit. Depending on the publication, you may have between one to four levels of hierarchy navigation. In addition you have the following navigation units: article, paragraph, sentence, line, word, character. With some long articles you might have in addition the '50 lines' navigation unit.
With the 'Up' and 'Down' keys, navigate in increments of the navigation unit selected.
While you can navigate during playing, it is easier to control navigation when the Player is stopped.
In newspapers or magazines, navigation levels represent section hierarchy. In national and regional newspapers, level 2 represents articles. In magazines, the hierarchy is more complex and articles can occur at any level. Therefore if you wish to read a publication sequentially, use the 'All levels' navigation unit which guarantees that no articles would be missed while navigating with the Down and Up keys.
You can copy text to the clipboard and bookmark publications, and this is explained
here
If you read a particular publication regularly you can add it to the Favourites directory in the Library so you can find it more quickly as follows:
In the Library's 'Newsagent' directory, navigate to the publication required.
Press 'Menu' to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > Add publication to Favourites
The publication was added to the Favourites directory which is located under the 'RNIB Newsagent eText' directory and you can navigate it in the usual way.
If you read a particular publication which you would like to save for future use in the Archive directory, do the following.
In the Library's 'Current Reading' directory, navigate to the publication required.
Press 'Menu' to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > Add publication to archive
The publication is added to the Archive > Publications directory which is located under the 'RNIB Newsagent eText' directory and you can navigate it in the usual way.
If you read a particular article which you would like to save for future use in the Archive directory, do the following.
With the publication loaded and the focus on the Player, navigate to the article you want to save.
Press 'Menu' to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > Add article to archive
The 'Save article as' task opens and the focus is positioned on an edit control which contains a suggested article name based on the publication date and the article number. Change the article name to anything you want.
Press the 'Menu' key to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > OK end task return to the Player
The article is added to the Archive > Articles directory which is located under the 'RNIB Newsagent eText' directory and you can navigate it in the usual way.
Use the Info key as follows:
'Info' [F2] (F: Info > Up 8) - publication title available in the Player.
# 'Info' [Shift + F2] (F: Info > Right 6) - level hierarchy and page number of the current article or channel if available in the Player
* 'Info' [Ctrl + F2] (F: Info > Left 4) - publication relative position and length information available in the Player.
*# 'Info' [Ctrl + Shift + F2] (F: Info > Down 2) - publication format information available in the Player.
The SpeakOn Player (reader) allows navigation in publication levels and text elements as explained above. These are usually all that are required for regular reading. The epub format supports HTML elements and the Player clearly shows headings, links, unordered and ordered lists both numerical and alphabetical. Tables are marked but not shown and can be viewed as described further below.
You can follow a link by copying and pasting as follows:
With the Right and Left keys move to the line navigation unit.
Navigate to the line where the link's URL is shown.
Press [Ctrl + b] to mark the beginning of the block you want to copy.
Press the Down key to move to the next line.
Press [Ctrl + e] to mark the end of the block.
Press [Ctrl + c] to copy the link to the clipboard.
Paste the link into your favourite internet browser.
Note that you don't have to remember the procedure above; you can find all the above commands under the Edit menu.
As mentioned above, tables are marked but not shown and you can view these in your default internet browser if you wish. You can also follow links this way and examine an article in more detail with your screen reader or magnifier if required.
You can view the current article in your internet browser from the menu:
View> View article in default internet browser
Your internet browser opens with the current article and the focus moves to the internet browser where you can examine the article elements and follow links as necessary. When you have finished, simply close the browser and move the focus back to SpeakOn.
Publications or single articles that you saved before can be deleted when loaded in the Player or by navigating the Library.
To delete a publication or a single article (from the archive) loaded in the Player, do the following:
Make sure the focus is on the Player. The player should be loaded with either the publication or the article that you want to delete.
Press the 'Menu' key to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > Delete file, confirm the deletion.
If you navigate the relevant directory in the Library, you will find that the publication or article was deleted.
To delete a publication or article from the Favourites, Current Reading or the Archive directory, do the following:
In the Library's Favourites, Current Reading or Archive directory, navigate to the publication or article you want to delete.
Press the 'Menu' key to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > Delete file, confirm the deletion.
If you navigate the relevant directory, you will find that the publication or article was deleted.
To delete all publications in the Current Reading directory, do the following:
Place the focus in the Library's Current Directory.
Press the 'Menu' key to bring up the Main menu and select:
File > Delete all files in directory, confirm the deletion.
If you navigate the Current Reading directory, you will find that it is empty.
You can configure conversion settings to clean and restructure publications automatically each time the Player is loaded. This is described in
RNIB Newsagent eText conversion settings
By default Cleaning and Restructuring settings are checked.
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