Hi Mary, First of all, the only useful selection in the radio group you mentioned is the list. Nothing else works well with vo. I'll go over some tricks I've found helpful in reading and navigating a book. First, I've found it helpful to turn off cursor tracking as the chapter navigation does not work for some reason win focus is in the HTML content. Next, you can route the mouse to the scroll area and press vo-f5. This will read the book content that is actually being displayed. Now you can move from chapter to chapter with command-shift-left or command-shift-right. When you do this, the displayed content you read with vo-f5 will change. You can move vo directly to the displayed content for reading by routing it to the mouse. You actually could not do this in the first release, but they did fix this. Also, you won't have large chunks of text that vo won't read at all.
I agree with most of your comments about iBooks. I think it really could and should have been better. I believe that it is currently in the best state that it's been in however, and I am able to use it affectively in the way I described. I hope you find something I said useful keeping in mind that while the methods work for me presently, there are glitches as always. On May 21, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: Having read on one of the lists I'm on, I think this one, but I might be wrong, that accessibility to iBooks was somewhat improved with the recent update, I have tried to get to grips with it, and have failed completely. When I first opened the program, it offered to import my several hundred books, and I said yes to that. I have reopened the program, and I have found a series of radio buttons that let me select among collections, all books and some other choices I don't recall. I picked collections, and I see a table that has my collection names in it. If I select one and quit interacting, I see absolutely no indication anywhere that I can actually access a list of books, much less open one. I've been through the menus with no help. I've been in preferences and found nothing useful. There are a few unlabeled buttons that somebody suggested were easy to label. I'd like to know how, since there are no hints associated with these. All in all, I find this application to be totally frustrating and a really bad example of what I thought was Apple's commitment to accessibility. Especially since they want iBooks in schools, you'd think they'd have made this totally VO accessible. So, for those of you who find this application efficiently usable, please tell me what I'm missing. Thanks. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
