Hello Esther, Thank you for your feedback and additional information regarding ADE and e-publishing. The limited choices for accessing textbooks remains my biggest hurdle in school, and the entry of players such as Inkling is a hopeful sign. I also noticed a posting to the ADE forum indicating that Barnes and Noble's Nook titles can be opened in the latest version of ADE, now that vendor ID support has been added (or broadened, or whatever has been done to it). Not sure if that means the body of Nook titles will be readable by VO, though. My sister is a Nook addict and has used the Nook's lending feature to loan me a few titles when I wanted to test versions of their IOS App for accessibility, so I plan to give this a try with ADE when time permits.
Cheers, Bryan On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Esther wrote: > other feature notes for version 4 state that they added support for printing > books with appropriate permissions, and that you can now authorize computers > and devices using Vendor ID other than Adobe ID. I assume this > I'm hoping that the Bookle app for reading DRM-free ePub also adds some more > navigation options in later versions. It would be useful to move back to the > last page of the previous chapter with a single command press, for example, > along with better page navigation options. These apps don't do as well for > reading textbook material. > > I was pleasantly surprised to find that books issued by Inkling on the iPad > are accessible with VoiceOver. Inkling is one of the developers that is > planning a big push into the textbook market, and they released a set of > Frommer's travel guides designed to take advantage of the newest iPad's > retina graphics. Well, those travel guides, which are optimized for visual > presentation of images, are also all accessible with VoiceOver! They're > planning to expand heavily in their iOS textbook offerings next fall, and > they've come a long way from their first trial releases (where VoiceOver > could hardly read any of the controls). > > There are a number of free eBooks available from O'Reilly press on the future > of electronic publishing, and the prospects with new standards of ePub 3 and > HTML 5. You can get them either from iBooks or from the O'Reilly site. (The > difference being that at the O'Reilly site you'll have access to multiple > DRM-free formats, and they will always update the version you can download > from your account with the latest information. Also, for <--- 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/>
