Have you sent an email to Apple accessibility about this issue?

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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On 30/03/2013, at 2:37, Arianna Sepulveda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, then, Apple might want to step up it's game, since it's now
> releasing textbooks through iBooks. All those elements that Mario
> mentioned are super important to comprehending information in
> textbooks.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ari
> 
> On 3/28/13, Alan Paganelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think your misunderstanding the point of the reader.  It was intended as a
>> 
>> reader for novels etc and never intended for text books for students.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mario Barbuto" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:50 AM
>> Subject: Re: best epub reader app for I Phone and accessibility?
>> 
>> 
>>>      Hi Dan,
>>> 
>>> I guess Gutemberg project uses the so-called "social DRM", out of
>>> copyright protection.
>>> For this kind of ebooks the Apple free downloadable app "Ibooks" could be
>>> 
>>> suitable enough, but only in case of simple contents books, I mean
>>> especially novels and litterature books in general.
>>> In short, all that books readable almost sequentially from start to end,
>>> from top to bottom.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, in case you need reading more complex books, the Ibooks app
>>> 
>>> often fails, not showing you all the features of the book.
>>> I'm mainly thinking of books filled with tables, footnotes, indexes with
>>> nested items, headings, meaningful images, refeences and so on.
>>> Ibooks seems not to recognize tables and consequently they cannot be red
>>> according to their structure, by column or by line, but just sequentially
>>> 
>>> line per line.
>>> The text description tags of images, when present, are ignored as well as
>>> 
>>> nested paragraphs in an index.
>>> Setting the VO rotor in navigation by headings you are not allowed to jump
>>> 
>>> to next or previous heading by the usual one finger down or up sliding
>>> gesture.
>>> 
>>> I have found more suitable to reading Epub format, but not copyright
>>> protected ebooks, the app called "Ilike2Read", downloadable not for free,
>>> 
>>> despite I did not find a complete accessible and usable app yet, capable
>>> of taking advantage of all the Ebooks navigation features.
>>> Not to mention Ebooks Adobe DRM protected that are almost inaccessible to
>>> 
>>> VoiceOver in Iphone and other apple devices.
>>> Only the "OverDrive" app seems dealing a little with that kind of books,
>>> but with bunch of shortcomings.
>>> 
>>> Of course, this is just my personal experience,
>>> hoping it could help.
>>> 
>>> Mario.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At 11:57 27/03/2013, Dan Beaver GMail wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I see that project Gutenberg suggests several apps for reading their books
>>>> 
>>>> in epub format.
>>>> 
>>>> does anyone know the most accessible and usable app for reading epubs on
>>>> the I Phone?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Dan Beaver
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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