Hello Esther and others, I would like to thank you all very much for your input regarding my question about continuous reading of a book in the iBook application. As you stated, Esther, a two-finger flick down from within the text did the trick. And yes, I agree that upon more thought, this makes sense.
Now to my next question: Is it a reasonable expectation that most commercially-done, contemporary novels found in the bookstore will be accessible? Even though I am currently in the U.S., I am still taken to the Austrian App Store, though manually switching isn't a problem. Kindest regards and thanks once again for your assistance, Mike On 26,Feb,2012, at 12:59 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
