I have not used Adobe Digital Edition on the Mac but wonder if the shift VO C command to copy last phrase spoken to clipboard may help here? I use this command extensively to use in a variety of circumstances, whether it is copying an error message spoken by Voiceover, window title information, dialogue boxes and it is even the easiest way I find to copy text off Safari pages.
It is not ideal but you could have Text Edit open. Play your book with Adobe Digital editions . Then if there was some text that you wanted spelt out or reviewed , simply press shift vo C an then this could be pasted into Text Edit for review. This command works with Voiceover copying other non-editable parts of the Mac system so in theory I cannot see why it should not work here. using this method you could use Adobe Digital editions for general reading but just copy into Text Edit the bits you need to study or quote more carefully. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryan Jones Sent: 24 June 2012 01:34 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: An Adobe Digital Additions Question. Hello Jim -- It is not possible to read by paragraph, line, word or character in Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 on the Mac. I've pasted below my recent email detailing some of the shortcomings that still exist in the latest version of ADE 1.8, which I believe is the fourth preview of this App. Also, Esther posted a reply containing lots of additional information. You can find Esther's message in the archives for June 9. If you have some spare time and lots of spare patience, please consider adding a post to Adobe's feedback forum. The folks at Adobe have been unresponsive to the two recent forum posts from VO Users, so perhaps some additional posts might prod them to say something. A link is included at the bottom of this email. HTH, Bryan Begin forwarded message: > Subject: Notes regarding the newly-updated Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 Preview 4 > 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/> <--- 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/>
