I have the app; I haven't played with it much, ut my first thoguht was, wow! A way to create books and sell the mint he iBooks store! I know it's meant for textbooks, but I don't see why it can't be used to make other kinds of books. Short stories, novels, whatever.
I noticed a couple of unlabeled buttons, but I guess we'll figure those out n time. Jane On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: > 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/> <--- 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/>
