Hi Keith, You can read eBooks that use the Adobe Digital Editions DRM on your computer using Adobe Digital Editions software version 2.0 for Windows or the Mac. There are a few apps that will work on iOS. Bluefire Reader is one of the apps that will read eBooks with ADE DRM, but it's not accessible with VoiceOver. Bluefire Reader behaves like the earlier (inaccessible) versions of the Kindle app and the Barnes & Noble Nook app: you can navigate to the books, but the actual book content is not exposed to VoiceOver. It's there on the screen, and you can verify this by taking a screenshot and sending the results to Prizmo or TextGrabber to OCR, but VoiceOver won't be able to read it.
The ereader apps which support Adobe's ADE DRM that are accessible with VoiceOver are the Kobo and Nook apps, and OverDrive Media Console. The Kobo and Nook ereader apps support this, because the ePub books they sell and use on their hardware readers use this form of digital rights management. OverDrive Media Console supports this format because this app lets you borrow downloadable eBooks and audiobooks from participating public libraries, and those libraries use Adobe's ADE DRM for many ePub and PDF eBooks. I know that you can open a third-party ePub book with Adobe's ADE DRM in the OverDrive Media Console app and read it in that app. The navigation experience for eBook reading with VoiceOver is better in the Kobo and Nook apps. I also know that you can open a third-party ePub book without DRM and read it in the Kobo app. (I haven't tried this with the Nook app, because it used to not be accessible., and most of these experiments were done a while ago.) In order to read an eBook with Adobe Digital Editions DRM, you'd have to get an Adobe ID, and then associate it with your account on the app. I think that for the Nook app, either that has to be managed from an actual hardware Nook device, or from access to your account on the web, since there's no place for this to be input in the Settings within that app, and the Nook FAQ only describes how you can "side load" eBooks without DRM into the Nook app. (The Nook was designed to allow library downloads of eBooks, but these were meant to be read on the Nook hardware reader -- not within the app.) The Kobo app has an area in settings to sign in with an Adobe ID. That's probably because the Kobo app was used extensively before their hardware reader was widely available, so Kobo made it simpler to separately download the ePub files from your account and and read them on your computer. (By contrast, the Barnes & Noble Nook web pages for your account purchases and books is very cluttered to navigate.) Understand that in general, anyone using either the Nook app or the Kobo app would not need to add an Adobe authorization to their account, because the information that you legitimately purchased these books is already in your account for these applications, whether or not you ever get an Adobe ID. It's only if you want to read this content somewhere else, or read content with DRM that was not purchased from Kobo or for the Nook app that you'd need to get and use an Adobe ID. And since I'm now mostly reading Kindle content, I haven't tried to use these other eBook formats very much lately. I think your best bet is to start with the Adobe Digital Editions Home page for instructions on how to install this application on your computer. They describe how to get an Adobe ID as part of the process: http://www.adobe.com/products/digital-editions.html The versions for Windows screen readers like JAWS are supposed to have more features than the one for the Mac. On the Mac the main issue is that you can't read by word, line, and character, but only a page at a time. You can, however, use the VoiceOver (Mac) keyboard shortcut to copy the last spoken phrase, so you could paste the entire page of what was just read into an app like TextEdit, where all the normal navigation options are available. The other key point from the Mac side is that you just use the arrow keys to turn the pages, rather than trying to do this with VoiceOver keystrokes. I don't know how the desktop app works with Windows and JAWS. The person who has followed the status of Adobe Digital Editions software most closely, mainly for textbook material, is Bryan Jones on the mac-access list. Again, this is mainly from the point of Mac usage. You can probably find someone to help you among the large community of Windows users. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 22 Jul 2013, at 07:51, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. wrote: > Hi, > > There’s a professional book I need to read. It’s an Adobe Digital Edition. > I’m told the ebook version is only available for reading with their Apple > app, Bluefire Reader. > > I’ve found some info on the web that Bluefire Reader does have some tts > capability, but I haven’t yet found anything detailed on what it’s true > VoiceOver functionality is. > > Does anyone on the list have experience or familiarity with Bluefire Reader > and it’s VO accessibility? > > Thanks in advance. Keith > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. 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