Hi Jeff, There are a number of ebook apps that specifically disable VoiceOver's ability to access the content in order to preserve digital rights management. This is also true if you try to use the Barnes & Noble Nook app, for example. You'll notice that usually you can access everything except for the actual content of the text. That's being blocked. You can verify this by taking a screen capture, and sending the results to an OCR app like Prizmo or TextGrabber. The OCR app will tell you what the contents are, but obviously you're not going to read the book by screen capturing every page and sending it to an OCR app.
If you want to read another example of this viewpoint, that the ability of screen readers to access text would promote copyright violation, take a look at Greg Kearney's posted response from Fictionwise in the archives, sent in reply to his inquiry about ebook accessibility for their ebook reading app just a few months after the iPhone 3GS was released with VoiceOver support: • Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495 http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg06200.html Since this is the Mail Archive post, if you're reading on your computer, you can also use access key shortcuts of Control-N to read down the thread for other reader comments. Best, Esther On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Forget it. It ain't gonna happen. > > It ain't accessible at all. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I downloaded the Kindle app so I can read some of the books that my wife is >> reading. I can't, however, figure out how to get it to work. Has anybody >> had success with the Kindle app? Is it accessible? Any tips? >> >> It looks like, to me, that it is displaying images instead of rendering the >> text. >> >> Thx, >> Jeff >> -- 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.
