Hi Mike, Just to expand on my comment about issuing the two-finger flick down from the text area of the book to get continuous reading going in iBooks. Since this gesture is meant to "read all" on the current page, starting from your present position, if you wanted to find out about the page chooser at the bottom of the screen the first time you checked the layout of controls in iBooks, and were starting from the buttons for Library and table of contents, you wouldn't want VoiceOver to keep reading to the end of the book before telling you that there were additional controls at the bottom of the page.
So what happens is that a two-finger flick down initiated from the area with button controls at the top of the screen just reads the text that is on the current page, then goes on to read the controls at the bottom of the screen. But if you initiate the two-finger flick down from within the text area, your "read all from present point" gesture continues to read through the text area, only, and will automatically go on to the next page. This originally confused me, too, the first time I encountered it and didn't have VO read the rest of the page. But then it made sense that it would work that way. Most people touch the center of the screen when they do their two-finger flick down, so that's why they automatically get the continuous reading. You'll still notice a slight pause when you reach the end of the current page. That's because iBooks does a simulated page turn graphic. This annoyed the heck out of some early reviewers (who were not visually impaired. Andy Ihnatko wrote in his initial, otherwise positive, review of iBooks for the Chicago Sun: "I do wish I could disable the fancy page-curl animation. On an iPhone 3GS, at least, there’s a slight, but annoying, additional pause as the app does a whole lot of math.") If this really annoys you, changing the font size to be small will put a lot more text on the screen before you get that slight pause. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Try doing the two-finger flick down from the middle of the text page. For > example, if you're reading in the page, do a two-finger tap to stop. Then do > a two-finger flick down. Usually when you're in the text area this will work > for continuous reading. Or you can try to touch the center of the screen for > the text area first, then do the two finger flick down. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Mike Busboom wrote: > >> Hello Jane, >> >> That's the problem. A two-finger flick down reads the current page, but >> reading is halted at the end of the page. I have been unsuccessful at >> having continuous read to work. I am read the current page from start to >> finish, but then VO stops reading, i.e. the next page isn't turned to, nor >> is reading continued. >> >> Mike >> >> On 26,Feb,2012, at 11:56 AM, Jane wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> Tru a two-finger-flick-down. That'll start it reading and will turn pages. >>> >>> Jane >>> >>> >>> On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the book on Siri and have started to >>>> read it. The navigation works reasonably well, i.e. I can go to specific >>>> pages and read a page in its entirety. Where I am having a problem, >>>> however, is getting VoiceOver to read continuously. At present, at least >>>> with the approach that seems to be working for me, I have to go to the >>>> page chooser and flick to the next page.. >>>> >>>> >>>> Is there a way to get iBooks to do continuous scrolling or get VoiceOver >>>> to automatically "turn pages and thus ensure continuous reading," as it >>>> were? I am staying with a friend who has an iPad and he tells me that he >>>> is able to get this to work. He puts his iPad in Landscape mode and can >>>> see two pages at a time. Would putting my iPhone in Landscape Mode yield >>>> the same results? I tried,but was unsuccessful. >>>> >>>> Kindest regards to all, with thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> > -- 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.
