Re: iBooks Newbie Question: How to scroll? Continuous reading?

Thanks, Sandie. I believe I see that I can write my own notes, but that's not the kind of notes I'm talking about. I'm talking about author provided notes that may be explanatory, or may simply be detailed citations to sources. In print these are usually indicated by a superscript number at the

Re: iBooks Newbie Question: How to scroll? Continuous reading?

i do believe that you can associate notes with the container part of the application if that makes sense Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Oct 2022, at 03.20, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi All: > In iBooks I get the opening line, but cant's seem to scroll the actual >

Re: iBooks question

Good idea; thanks. Larry W. Honaker kc8...@icloud.com Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105 KJV) > On Jan 8, 2021, at 3:37 PM, Dennis Westphal > wrote: > > After the Text you want to copy is read press VO+Shift+c. That will copy the > last spoken

Re: iBooks question

After the Text you want to copy is read press VO+Shift+c. That will copy the last spoken otterance to the clipboard. > Am 08.01.2021 um 20:31 schrieb 'Larry Honaker' via MacVisionaries > : > > Is there a way to copy pieces of text from a purchased book in the iBooks App? > > I can understand

Re: iBooks

d any issues with it at all. >> >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On >> Behalf Of Ben Constantini >> Sent: Monday, 10 June 2019 4:04 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: iBooks >> >> Thanks Anne , I just tried it on

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ups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Ben Constantini > Sent: Monday, 10 June 2019 4:04 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: iBooks > > T

RE: iBooks

Hi Ben, Books on the iPhone works very very well. I use it on my iPhone and iPods all the time. I’ve not had any issues with it at all. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Ben Constantini Sent: Monday, 10 June 2019 4:04 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re

RE: iBooks

Do you mean on the computer or books on the IOS platform? If on an iPad or iPhone then fantastically accessible I use it all the time. If on the mac OS platform then I can’t really say as I don’t use it but I’d bee surprised if it wasn’t accessible From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On

Re: iBooks

Thanks Anne , I just tried it on my mac with an old book I had purchased awhile back and it seemed to work okay . I am anxious to see how it works on my iPhone xr . Thanks again , Ben Constantini bennnyconstant...@gmail.com > On Jun 9, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello

Re: iBooks

Hello Ben, Both on the Mac and on iOS, iBooks is now just called Books. On iOS, it’s very easy to use, rather less so on the Mac. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Jun 2019, at 17:25, N2KPV wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone uses Ibooks and how accessible it is with voiceOver > . I saw a book I am

Re: Ibooks on Ipad mini and braille.

Hi! I can try that out. SO thanks very very much for your help. /A > On 09 Apr 2016, at 04:02, Michelle's Home Emails > wrote: > > Hi Anders, > > Michelle Stevens here, > > Not sure if my advise is any good for answering your question? > > On the IPhone I use

RE: Ibooks on Ipad mini and braille.

On Behalf Of Michelle's Home Emails Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 7:03 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Ibooks on Ipad mini and braille. Hi Anders, Michelle Stevens here, Not sure if my advise is any good for answering your question? On the IPhone I use Braille display w

Re: Ibooks on Ipad mini and braille.

Hi Anders, Michelle Stevens here, Not sure if my advise is any good for answering your question? On the IPhone I use Braille display with iBooks all the time. To change pages I use the right rocker button on my focus 14. To go top of page I use space bar and dots 123 and arrow until I

Re: ibooks storage?

; From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2016 8:50 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: ibooks storage? > > Hello Caitlyn, > Here’s where to find your iBooks: > ~/Li

Re: ibooks storage?

I don’t like iBooks and rarely buy them. I prefer to buy from Kobo. The Kobo app works fine on my iPhone, less well on an iPad, and on the Mac, Adobe Digital Editions reads Kobo books. Adobe Digital Editions puts a folder in the Documents folder and the files have meaningful names. Also, Kobo

Re: ibooks storage?

Thanks to the new iBooks storage location, it’s now very hard to back up your stuff. In prior days, Books was just a folder in your iTunes media folder, which could be anywhere on your drive or on another file system altogether. My advice is to keep a separate Books folder somewhere with all

Re: ibooks storage?

Hi! I use Ibooks but only on the Iphone as i want to read them in braille. And braille on the mac is not working very well for me. /A > 17 mars 2016 kl. 18:24 skrev Anne Robertson : > > I don’t like iBooks and rarely buy them. I prefer to buy from Kobo. The Kobo > app works

RE: ibooks storage?

: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2016 8:50 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: ibooks storage? Hello Caitlyn, Here’s where to find your iBooks: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data

Re: ibooks storage?

Wow, thanks, Ann! Caitlyn > On Mar 14, 2016, at 3:50 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Caitlyn, > Here’s where to find your iBooks: > ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/ > > > Unfortunately, the names are not meaningful and the file

Re: ibooks storage?

Hello Caitlyn, Here’s where to find your iBooks: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/ Unfortunately, the names are not meaningful and the file type is epub. Cheers, Anne -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Re: iBooks issue

gt; I should add that this isn't the case on I O S. On I O S, it works >>>> beautifully. I did report this to Apple, but I never really followed up >>>> with them about it, as reading IBooks from the mac isn't really something >>>> I'd normally wish to d

Re: iBooks issue

t;> with them about it, as reading IBooks from the mac isn't really something >>> I'd normally wish to do. I'd prefer to just use my phone, or IPad and do >>> it. That however said, I definitely can confirm that I am able to >>> reproduce your issues. >>

Re: iBooks issue

gt;>> it. That however said, I definitely can confirm that I am able to >>> reproduce your issues. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>>> - Original Message - >>>> From: Gary <mailto:gary.robl...@gmail.com> >>>> To:

Re: iBooks issue

to just use my phone, or IPad and do >> it. That however said, I definitely can confirm that I am able to >> reproduce your issues. >> >> Chris. >> >>> - Original Message ----- >>> From: Gary <mailto:gary.robl...@gmail.com> >>> To: macvisionar

Re: iBooks issue

- Original Message - >> From: Gary <mailto:gary.robl...@gmail.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:10 AM >> Subject: Re: iBooks issue >> >> I recently installed El Capitan

Re: iBooks issue

: Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:10 AM Subject: Re: iBooks issue I recently installed El Capitan and hadn’t used iBooks yet, but tried it just now. When I opened iBooks, I went to the book shelf table with my list of books and interacted with it. I didn’t see another window/table with the contents

Re: iBooks issue

I recently installed El Capitan and hadn’t used iBooks yet, but tried it just now. When I opened iBooks, I went to the book shelf table with my list of books and interacted with it. I didn’t see another window/table with the contents, so I double-click on my book, to open it. A window opened,

Re: iBooks issue

Yup. Same here. Works lovely in iOS but OS X iBooks is a useless waste of disk space. Someone said it could be internet issues but that's not the case here since speed test shows I'm actually getting slightly more throughput than advertised by the ISP. So I think they've just broken something.

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

On Windows I use QRead and as far as I can tell preserves structure fine for the purposes I have used it for. Control H will bring up a navigable list of headings in any book or magazine and this is my main method of navigation. I will put it on my VM Ware Fusion image of Win 7 as a mac

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

I have just tried using iBooks for the first time as well. I know this may seem like a sort of basic suggestion, but the first time I opened iBooks, I had the same problem. I closed and reopened the app, and now the problem has gone away. You might give that a try. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 7,

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

I have just tried using iBooks for the first time, so I need to add a couple things to my library. You might want to try trashing all preferences that start with com.apple.ibooks and see if that helps. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 6, 2016, at 04:13, David Griffith

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

Yes this is what is happening with me but based on this feedback I may have to do an ultra clean install. The problem may be that after the install I migrated my apps and settings across to the new install from Time machine as it is a real pain retrieving and entering all the non app store

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

Yes, clean installs are best done clean. It’s a pain, but it’s always worth doing the clean part. There will be corrupt preferences and long-dead traces of previous crashes or other problems that would be swept up by simply cloning the Library folders. >From what you’re saying, though, it

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

Although I think iBooks for Mac is really quite horrible, an unfinished counterpart to its far-superior iOS version, I didn’t have any trouble using it. Once you interact with the scroll area, you can stay interacted with it, and even continuous read, and it will plough through the book,

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

Hello Andrew, When I open iBooks, there is a toolbar at the top left of the window, and to the right of it is Bookshelf scroll area. I interact with this and land on the Sort By button. Navigating right, I find a grid of book titles, and if I interact with one, I find a button. Pressing

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

iBooks is very annoying by nature, but it’s not nonfunctional—at least, not by Apple’s present-day standards. It sounds like you’re having a right time of it, though, and there’s probably something wrong in your particular installation. At the very least, can you explore the main window and

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

Yeah I can get menus but that's it. The reading area is always busy. Have I got something misconfigured on OS X? Are there certain settings for accessibility. I read all the ibooks on iphone because it reads flawlessly but the same level of access on os x would be lovely. -- The following

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

Hi Anne, Thank you for responding. The thing is that I can't find the preferences where I could set the reading to two pages or whatever other option there may be. I can go to the menu bar with vo+m but I can't arrow down the menus. I'm just so surprise;surprised. Andrew > On 8 Nov 2015,

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

Ok, I have a few PDF's that I've just been using preview for. How is Adobe Digital Editions different? And how is Kobo different than Kindle or iBooks. I'm not a huge fan of Kindle because a lot of the books I'd like to read are only on free sample. But iBooks on the phone is lovely if I could

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

For me, iBooks in Mac OS X El Capitán, iBooks is working OK. I have it set to 2 pages and can either read using VO-a or by sentence, paragraph, etc. In fact, I much prefer Adobe Digital Editions on the Mac, and Kobo on the iPhone to read eBooks. Besides, living in France, there are lots of

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

If you can access the table of contents, I believe you must choose the page from the TOC in El Capitan. But, I forget how you get to the reading area. Before I went back to Yosemite, if I remember correctly, it would always skip back to a previous page where I had a book mark set. HTH.

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

Adobe Digital Editions works for reading PDFs but you don’t have the same ability to read by character, word, line, etc. I use it for reading DRM protected books from Kobo since the Kobo application doesn’t work on Mac. Kobo for iOS works pretty well except for turning pages to get to where you

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

Hi, I should clarify that my trouble with ibooks is on the mac not on my ipad or iPhone. On my mac, iBooks gets constantly busy when I try to read. There are buttons in the window that should allow you to move to next or previous page but they don't seem to do what they are supposed to.

Re: iBooks with the Mac and iPhone6

Hi, that’s really interesting. I’m reading a technical book for a class that I am taking and I believe I have better control over the iBook app on my Mac. Once I get to a page, I interact with it using VO-Shift-down arrow and I’m able to down arrow (line-by-line) or other smaller increments.

Re: iBooks with the Mac and iPhone6

Hi Eileen, Back in the good old days, it used to be possible to navigate within an iBook page buy whatever you had your rotor set two, such as lines. Then that lovely setting went away. I know that I have asked Apple accessibility after every iBooks upgrade to get this put back. Thus far, they

Re: iBooks with the Mac and iPhone6

Hi! One thing i seem to not figure out is if there’s a table of contents i can interact with that and lick the wanted item but sometimes it seems not to work. Reading is also easier on the phone to me. /A > 29 sep. 2015 kl. 03:27 skrev Eileen Misrahi : > > Hello, > >

Re: iBooks with the Mac and iPhone6

Hi Eileen M, I’ve been doing this same thing with my Mac Book & IPhone 6. It appears to me that the page numbering is not in synch between the 2 devices. I think it has to do with the fact that less material appears on the Iphone’s screen than what the Mac Book can show. I have on the

Re: iBooks with the Mac and iPhone6

Hi! I did try it but it doesn’t seem to work here. BUt maybe my mac is a bit to old. /A > 29 sep. 2015 kl. 01:11 skrev Eileen Misrahi : > > Hello Folks, > > I decided to take the plunge and post this topic here. With so much > discussion about the appropriateness of

Re: iBooks with the Mac and iPhone6

Hello, Thanks for responding. I decided to Google it and came up with some results and ideas. So here goes: On the Mac, open iBooks and go to its preferences by pressing Command-comma. 2. Select the general tab with VO-space and stop interacting with it by pressing VO-Shift-Up Arrow. 3. Tab

Re: iBooks Author

I’d like the correct spelling of the publishing site Sara was talking about, please. I typed inlian publishing and got a big fat zilch! Thanks, Caitlyn On Jun 22, 2015, at 2:22 AM, Daniela Rubio mabuha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Were you able to use the widgets area? At some point, I was

Re: iBooks Author

Hi, Sorry, it was a fairly busy workshop and iBooks Author was only for about 2 hours or so. I played around with the controls, entered some data, added some audio content and probably a bit more, but didn't actually complete anything. Most was usable for me although I do recall some minor

Re: iBooks Author

Hello! Were you able to use the widgets area? At some point, I was trying to use it and I was not able to make out the book layout. It was a big table, but I could not work wit it. Did you actually create a book with it? Thanks for all! Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 21/6/2015, a

Re: iBooks Author

Hi, As far as I recall, it is very accessible. I used it last year about this time at an Apple Education workshop and was able to use most of the features. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 21, 2015, at 13:03, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: How accessible is iBooks

Re: IBooks

Sorry Tim, I updated the subject line to better reflect. Hope you don't mind. Wow, you're right though. That's really interesting. I wonder why the vo+shift+M wouldn't work. Does it have to do with how things are coded? Chris. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn

Re: IBooks

Chris, Yes. I suspect that the table uses slightly different structure than, let's say, a similar table in iTunes. It's likely a custom element using proper accessibility API's but not everything in there meets VO needs. Just surmising. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun

Re: IBooks

Aa, gotcha. Chris. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 3:19 PM Subject: Re: IBooks Chris, Yes. I suspect that the table uses slightly different structure than, let's say, a similar table

Re: iBooks and Yosemite

Depending on whether you are in single or two page view you can navigate by single or two pages simply by pressing the up and down arrow keys. Theoretically I think you should be able to navigate by chapter with shift command left and right arrow from memory but I am not sure about this yet as

RE: ibooks

PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: ibooks I would also like to say thank you. I often consult the list of voice over commands available from the help menu, and I don't remember seeing this one. On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:37 AM, wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello thanks I

Re: ibooks

The normal VO A command appears to be working fine for me on an unprotected ePub document. I am still experimenting. I had changed to single page view to see if that could reduce busy messages when navigating by page but I am not sure if that makes difference David Griffith On 22 Oct 2014,

Re: ibooks

I replied before as well but obviously you did not see it. VO A is working fine for me to produce continuous reading in iBooks. David Griffith. On 22 Oct 2014, at 16:48, wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have asked before about this is there a way to do continuous read on the mac

RE: ibooks

Hello thanks I did not get your last message so thanks I will give that a go again thanks From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re

Re: ibooks

that a go again thanks From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: ibooks I replied before as well but obviously you did not see it. VO

Re: iBooks and pdf

Nothing. pdf files are supposed to open in Preview not Ibooks. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! On Oct 21, 2014, at

Re: iBooks and pdf

Ahh okay, I thought that iBooks was able to open pdf files. On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Nothing. pdf files are supposed to open in Preview not Ibooks. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from

Re: iBooks and pdf

Have you tried select ting a PDF file then pressing command iwhich gives you information about the file but you can also choose to associate the file with an app and continue tabbing to apply the change to all PDF files. For example, I have docuscan plus open my PDF files. I'm going to see if I

RE: iBooks on Yosemite

Hello yes ibooks Is good now but how can I continuous read thanks in advance -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iBooks

Re: iBooks on Yosemite

ello, I almost love iBooks now. But! Sometimes it just keeps reading the same page over again and again. Or it will just stop at the bottom of a page. While in other books, VO tracks and reads just fine. Book Marks work also. `On Oct 17, 2014, at 7:05 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: iBooks on Yosemite

Hi Joseph, When you say bookmarks work do you mean that you actually get text with the bookmark? Or when you go through your bookmark list, do you just get page numbers? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Oct 17, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: ello, I almost love iBooks

Re: iBooks on Yosemite

Hello, Yep. Book Marks do work. When you set a Mark, then when you go to locate it, it will read a bit of the text to let you know what you'v selected. On Oct 17, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joseph, When you say bookmarks work do you mean that you actually get

Re: Ibooks?

What kind of trouble are you having? I have been using i books with my braille display and not having too much trouble. I did have to remap the next and previous chapter commands since they conflict with the command for highlighting, but that wasn't hard. Cait On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:49 AM, May

Re: Ibooks?

That's the biggest one. How to get it to switch to the next chapter. Sometimes when I do the command it works and other times it doesn't and takes at least 6 tries. I'm not using a braille display, just voiceover. 16 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes May and Leader Dog . . . www.canadianlynx.ca

RE: Ibooks?

Hello May, What I can tell you is that, as the public beta of Yosemite has demonstrated, is that the soon-to-be-released version of iBooks is incredibly more VoiceOver accessible. So, just hang in there for a few more weeks. You will not be disappointed. Mark -Original Message-

Re: Ibooks?

Hi, when you do the next chapter command, it doesn't say anything. After I do the command for next chapter(in my case, command shift n), I stop interacting with the current html area, vo right arrow or just right arrow to the next html area, then interact. that should work. I haven't yet

Re: Ibooks?

Hi May, There are two things about the chapter navigation in iBooks for Mavericks I have found that I will explain incase you aren't aware of them. First, ibooks considers all subsections in a chapter as chapters. So, even if you press command-shift-left or right it will seem to you not to be

Re: iBooks under latest Mavericks

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

Re: iBooks under latest Mavericks

Hi, I was just at an Apple Learning Tour event last week and let some of the folks see the frustrations with accessibility in some of the apps including iBooks. I agree that with Apple's push to have iBooks in the schools, they need to continue working on these downfalls. I'm not making

Re: iBooks under latest Mavericks

Thanks, Tim and Barry, for your responses. I will give the list view a try. It seems to me, and I might be remembering wrongly, that when iBooks first came out on iOS, its accessibility was excellent right from the start. Maybe not perfect, but very good. In fact, to my way of thinking, it is

Re: iBooks under latest Mavericks

people only have what they deserve ... continue to support apple's irresponsibility that she pays you well ... like the mavericks update 10.9.3? apple gave you a handful of nothing wasn't accessibility? cheers. As mulheres, durante séculos, serviram de espelho aos homens por possuírem o

Re: iBooks under latest Mavericks

Hi, Not sure that I understand what's trying to be said here. Not wanting to open up a can of worms but just a little confused. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 21, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Mario Navarro mario@gmail.com wrote: people only have what they deserve ...

Re: iBooks under latest Mavericks

Good question. I guess it is the interpretation of riddles Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain

Re: iBooks, WasRe: The bug for Messaging on the I phone.

Ah yes, that's another can of worms. I can use it with system speech from the edit menu, but Braille is now shot for me. It only navigates through one paragraph per chapter in Braille, but i can read the entire chapter with system speech. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers.

Re: iBooks, WasRe: The bug for Messaging on the I phone.

Hi Teresa, I'm talking about iBooks on the Mac. On Mar 13, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Which iBooks situation are you referring to? I haven't had trouble with ibooks on the iPod thus far, other than the long-standing breakage of whiz wheels on the focus 40.

Re: iBooks

Hi Stacey. I think you may go with ibooks. There seems to be no solution to do that. Best regards Annie. Den 06/03/2014 kl. 13.13 skrev Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net: Hello, I just purchased an iBook yesterday that I would like to convert to some different format. Is there a free

RE: iBooks

: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Annie Skov Nielsen Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 10:33 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iBooks Hi Stacey. I think you may go with ibooks. There seems to be no solution to do that. Best

Re: iBooks

10:33 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iBooks Hi Stacey. I think you may go with ibooks. There seems to be no solution to do that. Best regards Annie. Den 06/03/2014 kl. 13.13 skrev Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net: Hello, I just purchased an iBook

Re: iBooks, Was just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

Hi, Donna, Just be aware that iBooks is a bit tricky. When you’re in the library, push the lists radio button to have VO say your book titles. When you open a book, the chapter will be in an HTmL area, which you have to interact with. The shortcut key to switch chapters doesn’t work well with

Re: iBooks, Was just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

Hi, Teresa, Thanks for the tips. I’ve been following the iBooks discussions pretty closely in anticipation of the upgrade, but I’ll definitely keep this in mind. Cheers, Donna On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Donna, Just be aware that

Re: ibooks on the mac, how do you all magane this?

Hi all, I have not tried using the books yet on the mack i still read my books on my iPhone or iPad. Becky Sabo On Dec 8, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: You can press enter or command-down-arrow when in listview to open a book. Ibooks on the Mac is not as

Re: ibooks on the mac, how do you all magane this?

I cannit even open an ibook. I am in grid view. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 8, 2013, at 2:36 AM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I hate to bring this up again, maybe I am doing something wrong but reading ibooks on the mac (using braille) remains quite the challenge. Next

Re: ibooks on the mac, how do you all magane this?

You can press enter or command-down-arrow when in listview to open a book. Ibooks on the Mac is not as useable as it is on iOS. I use the next chapter item in the menus and then interact with the last html content I find, which is usually the next chapter. It is useable, but not as convenient

Re: ibooks and short cuts?

It’s a bug. Going through the menus works, though. HtH, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: HI. Am currently reading an ibook on the mac. I am having trouble with the command shift right

Re: ibooks and short cuts?

Sure am. That never works for me. Neither does item chooser in so far as actually being able to cause the proper text to be hilighted. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and

Re: ibooks and short cuts?

From memory it worked for me if I stopped interacting with the text HTML area. However, I'm not on my Mavericks Mac at the moment so can't double check this. Cheers, Nic On 21 Jan 2013, at 5:26 AM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: HI. Am currently reading an ibook on the

Re: ibooks and short cuts?

Didn’t make any difference for me one way or the other. I almost think we’re dealing with a half baked cookie. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Nov 20,

Re: iBooks internal location on the mac?

Look at Tidbits.com this week thereis a article About fixing genres in iBooks that includes the process of moving the book to the desktop. Apparently the library folder that contains books uses random names for the folders so you need to export them from the program directly. Sent from my

RE: iBooks internal location on the mac?

@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. Cohn Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:12 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iBooks internal location on the mac? Look at Tidbits.com this week thereis a article About fixing genres in iBooks that includes

Re: iBooks for MacOS X 10.9 accessibility

Hi, I think what Greg trying to say is the different from the visual and what VO reads or may not read. Joanne Chua The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad On 26 Oct 2013, at 13:36, Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I’m not

Re: iBooks for MacOS X 10.9 accessibility

Greg, I think you made a good point about the scrolling. I think after thinking about this however, it’s much more complicated. While a blind person is able to read a book, I don’t think that Voiceover is interacting with the scroll area properly at all. I looked at what I wrote, and I

Re: iBooks for MacOS X 10.9 accessibility

Hi, I’m not understanding many of the issues you brought up. I also think that you left some things out. 1. I am able to interact with an entire chapter with Voiceover. I could be wrong, but The number of pages shown seems to be strictly visual in my experience. I have not had to scroll

Re: iBooks on Mac

Sent iBooks is coming to the Mac when the new Mavericks operating system comes out. Apple announced that back in the spring at WWDC. Mary from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Helena Fehr helena.torch.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I've been hearing rumours that iBooks is coming to

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