Hello All, I'm interested to hear from folks if and when you get a chance to poke around in the new free "iBooks Author" Mac App released by Apple today.
At first glance, it seems like a bit of a cross between a word processor and a full page layout program. I've only spent an hour or two with it so far but was happy to find that VO could find and interact with almost all elements and, in fact, I was able to create a new document and insert a table and it was nicely accessible to VO.. That's right: the process of creating the table, the process of making changes to the table, and the process of navigating the table all seemed to be VO accessible. If you're familiar with using the Inspector in Pages, try creating a table in this new app and then use the Inspector to play around with it. Pretty nice stuff. Of course, a couple of tables do not a document make, but perhaps the other page elements are equally accessible. While Apple is touting the app as a textbook creation tool designed to produce documents for consumption through the iBooks 2 App on an iPad, it does sound like there might be a way to save or export your creation in a format that is readable outside of iBooks. I exported their default document to PDF and the result seemed to be readable in Preview. The App seems targeted for the creation of media-rich interactive e-books, and there are tools for inserting all kinds of stuff that one might assume would be difficult for a reader to access, but I found this hopeful note in Apple's App Store description: "• Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver." The app is free and available now in the Mac App store, at least here in the US,. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12 Cheers, Bryan <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
