I have also emailed Apple Accessibility and received a response. I believe
the problem will be fixed in a timely manner. The major upside, at least in
my opinion, is that iBooks can be updated independent of the OS since it
isn't a built in app.
I am glad to know that others have also communicated with Apple on this
issue as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: Difficulty with Activating Links in an iBooks Book
I have also communicated to APple with the issue and exact steps to
reproduce. If they responded then you can bet they will work on the issue.
May not happen tomorrow, but it will be addressed.
On Sep 19, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Craig Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
I received email from Apple sayhing they can replicate the problem and
are working on a solution. The reply was not detailed, but it came
quickly, and I am reassured that Apple is aware of the problem.
Craig
On 9/16/12, Craig Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
After much experimenting, I have concluded that I can't get iBooks
links to activate and plan to write to [email protected] soon.
Here is what I have discovered. If anyone can report different
results, please let me know.
Problem: When trying to activate a link in iBooks 2.1.1 that takes a
user to a different page of the book than the one being read, the
"Double-tap" gesture produces no results.
There is no "links" option on the rotor within the iBooks app.
Therefore, if a user wants to try to activate a link, he/she must stop
reading the text and go to the "words" or "characters" options of the
rotor, flick down until the title of the link is heard, and do a
"double-tap." I have tried tapping at several places on the line that
lists a particular link, all to no avail. Damashe suggested that
links with other information on the same line might cause troubles,
and it is true that in the case of the iBook links I have been working
with, there is other information on the line, such as two
"greater-than" signs and a comma, but this information is not
contiguous to the title of the link. At any rate, regardless of where
I "double-tap" on the line, I get no results. The
"double-tap-and-hold" pass-through gesture does pop up a menu of
options, but these have to do with the word being selected, not with
the link itself.
Craig
On 9/12/12, Damashe Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
This doesn't always work as sometimes the usual roter options are not
always
available in iBooks for me. Also, the double tap and hold doesn't work
at
all for navigation links that are supposed to move you to another part
of
the book. I am not sure if this is an accessibility issue or one
related
to
formatting of a particular book or PDF as in some cases, the links work
just
fine and other times they don't.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Chittenden" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Difficulty with Activating Links in an iBooks Book
Hello,
When you use up and down flicks along with the rotor to navigate on to
the
exact link, use a double-tap and hold (pass-through gesture) to tell
the
iOS device you want to work specifically with the link. A menu of
options
should pop up.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 11/09/2012, at 14:25, Craig Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you, Dameshe and Scott, for weighing in. I am going to get
sighted help tomorrow and do some more experimenting. Dameshe, from
a
character by character search of lines containing links, it certainly
appears that any line containing a link carries other information
besides the name of the link, including "greater than" signs
signifying the presence of a link. I'll be back with an update soon.
Craig
On 9/10/12, Scott Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
Although this is not exactly related to this specific issue, I have
found
that trying to activate links in books using iBooks, while using a
Braille
display results in VoiceOver crashes and the link is never
activated.
I would be curious if anyone has had any success with speech and/or
Braille
when activating links. I think this is something that needs to be
brought to
APple's attention and I would encourage you to do so by e-mailing
[email protected].
On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Damashe Thomas
<[email protected]>
wrote:
I have had a few books with links that didn't work. What seems to
have
happened is that the link isn't on a line by itself, usually I have
a
comma or some other punctuation. It's like if someone emails you a
link,
as onlg as that links text is all on one line you can usually click
it.
But if I wrote the url like this,
www.google.coj,
and you receive it with the comma after the m in .com, you can not
activate that link.
Try moving your finger down the screen til you get to the link then
double
tap it. If this method doesn't work, then I am afraid you have
other
punctuation or something on the line with the link.
Sorry for the rambling message, hope it helped some.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Werner"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 6:54 AM
Subject: Difficulty with Activating Links in an iBooks Book
Greetings to the list.
I am using iBooks 1.1.1 on my iPhone 3GS to read a book in the
Rough
Guide travel series. This book contains links to sections of
chapters
which it lists at the start of each chapter. Try as I might, I
cannot
activate those links and jump to a desired page number. I have
stopped continuous reading, changed the rotor to "word mode," and
double-tapped on words in the title of the link and on the word
"link"
itself, all to no avail. Of course, I can activate the "search"
button and do a search for the desired section's title, but I'd
rather
just click on the link for that title. Any suggestions are
welcome
and most appreciated.
Craig
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