[Koha] WG: Introducing myself, adress administration, and accessibility

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Andrea,

Welcome to the Koha community!

Indeed there are 3 kinds of address you can define per patron:
"Main address", "Alternate address" and "Alternate contact".
However you can define an unlimited number of "additional attributes".
They are free text fields you can fill by patron. That could match your
needs.

If you found any bugs or if you have suggestions/ideas to improve
accessibility, you can open bugs (1 per bug/idea would be good) on our bug
tracker at bugs.koha-community.org
I am sure some of the Koha developpers will be happy to help you.

Regards,
Jonathan

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 at 12:28 Andrea Katemann <Katemann at blista.de> wrote:

> Hello
> I am the head of a special library for blind and visually impaired people.
> We lend audio books and books in braille. The books are sended in boxes in
> Germany and also abroad. We think about introducing Koha. We like the
> program because it is quite customizable, because you can get many
> statistics information and because it has a magazin administration, and we
> have heard that quite a few libraries are now working with this system and
> a good exchange is possible. Now I have two questions:
> 1. As already said we are mainly a shipping library. For this reason We
> need more than three addresses per customer. We have so far understood that
> you can create three addresses in Koha. Is it possible to expand the
> program by the way that you can create 6 to 8 addresses per user?
> 2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First
> tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this
> clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be
> conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further
> development of Koha?
> I'm looking forward to understanding questions and ideas to our situation.
> Kind regards
> Andrea
>
> Andrea Katemann
> Leiterin der Deutschen Blinden-Bibliothek
> Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V. (blista)
> Postfach 11 60, 35001 Marburg
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> E-Mail: katemann at blista.de
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