Hello All, The folks at Adobe have released the fourth preview version of Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) 1.8, which is their attempt at making an accessible epub/PDF reader that can handle reading materials scrambled using Adobe's DRM protection scheme.
While the ADE 1.8 preview does enable the User to open some documents, turn pages, and read a page at a time using VO, it Unfortunately still lacks some basic important reading functions such as the ability to read by paragraph, sentence, word or character, or to interact with the text. In addition, the "annotate" functions are not accessible, and several items on the toolbar are unlabeled. I've had occasion to use ADE when reading several DRM-protected articles for my schoolwork and I think this application has the potential to be a useful tool if Adobe can manage to complete the process of making it fully VO-compatible. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with Adobe, they are moving at a snail's pace and don't seem to be too concerned with the missing functionality. If you're interested in installing and trying this free application, or if you'd like to leave feedback for Adobe specifically regarding this app, I've included the appropriate links below. Link 1. Link to download Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 Preview version 4: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/digitaleditions1-8.html Link 2: Link to Adobe's feedback / discussion forum for this application (Note that posting to Adobe's forums requires you to login with your Adobe ID, and the process for adding a new post uses a difficult-to-navigate interface. http://forums.adobe.com/community/labs/digitaleditions1-8?view=discussions Regards, 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/>
