Here is my sad report on the state of iPhone book reading applications on the iPhone Touch. I downloaded the following ebook reading application:
eReader Stanza Kindle R&N eReader I am sorry to report that none of these applications are accessible with voiceover on the iphone. With the exception of Stanza none permit you to even see the list of installed books. Further it would seem from my study that the inaccessibility would appear to be a deliberate decision and not some kind of programming error as not having an accessible interface in the iPhone require the developer to deliberately choose to develop a none accessible control. Stanza may well be a design flaw as the issue there is not the inability to reach and read but one of not being able to turn the pages due to the assumption of a single tap on the right or left hand side of the screen. I am unsure why the developers of ebook readers have decided to implement their readers as they have. I suspect it may be due to the Author's Guild suit in the U.S. against the Kindle reader. Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) Email: gkear...@gmail.com On 09/08/2009, at 9:20 PM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote: > Hi, I have posted about this on the other list, but does anyone use > the iphone as a bookreading device to read text or html books? If > so, ho well does it work to read continuously, and do you often find > yourself losing your place? Has anyone used the bookmarklet that > allows you to execute the find command in an html file? Are there > other accessible word-processing applications that include a find > command? > Thanks, > tasha > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
