Hi dawn, I'm going through this process right now. After signing up with the web site, the first thing you want to do is to email [email protected] and ask them to enable the accessible reader on your account.
Once the accessible reader is enabled, when you access a book, you will be able to see the text. However, there are additional optimizations that can be performed to make it easier to navigate with a screen reader. This includes descriptions of images in the book, as well as better tagging of paragraphs, headings, lists and tables. They say that 80% of CourseSmart titles are already tagged. My book was not. If you read a book and it just seems to be raw, unorganized text, write to the same email address and provide the title and author of the book so that it can be submitted for tagging. Unfortunately, this takes a few weeks, but you can still read the book as it is until they are finished with it. It is definitely usable even in an untagged form, it's just much more pleasant once the work is done. I hope this helps. Justin On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Dawn Benbow wrote: Hi everyone, Does anyone have experience using e-books from Course Smart? I discovered last semester at school that this is the e-book company that my University uses the most for their text books. They say their books are accessible, but I wasn't having much luck last semester with them, so wanted to ask for some help before starting up again next month. I know they were scheduled to give a presentation at one of the conventions this summer, but I wasn't able to go and sit in on it. So I was hoping someone here might be able to help me. Thanks very much. Dawn Benbow email: [email protected] Messanger: [email protected] Messanger: [email protected] Twitter: DawnAndBaskin Skype: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
