As far as I understand it, Kirsten's reference was to the books that are searchable in google, which are not ebooks. These are scanned images from books, and aren't readable with an accessible app or screen-reader.
Teresa On Jul 23, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Penny Reeder <[email protected]> wrote: > The first book I read on my IPhone was a Google book. I found the > book, bought it, and then read it without any difficulty straight > through. That was a couple of years ago, so I don't know if the app > has changed, but my experience was quite good. > Penny > > On 7/23/13, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Google books on the web that are not specifically ebooks are scanned >> images. As far as I'm aware, the only thing you could try is scanning each >> page and performing OCR on it. This seems extremely labor-intensive. Have >> you looked for other sources? Unfortunately, it might almost be easier to >> get a hardcopy outhe book if there are no ebook versions available >> anywhere. >> >> Teresa >> On Jul 22, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Kirsten Edmondson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When I refer here, in the subject line, to accessibility or readability of >>> Google books, I do not mean Google play books or any other related >>> e-books. Google books seem to be set and I believe are either pictorial >>> representations/graphical representations of the books and therefore are >>> unreadable to screen readers such as voice-over. I have found a book I am >>> desperately seeking but it is only available on Google books, andnot in >>> any other format. Before I give up on it, I wanted to see if anybody has >>> had any experiences of being able to read these books? Often, you canget >>> a >>> Previous page button and next page button but it does not seem to speak >>> any of the actual text on the pages. This is my experience both with >>> jawsand with VO on my iPhone. 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