so because of stupid drm copy write crap the blind can't read the ebooks?
On 3/22/2012 6:30 PM, Esther wrote:
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!!!
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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
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