[Blindmath] What is the accessibility level of Safari onlinebooks?

[Amanda Lacy]

Good news. It took a little getting used to, but Safari seems to work just 
fine with JAWS 10 on my XP machine with internet explorer. There are two 
display options which seem to be controled by a toggle called "HTML view." 
One of these (I'm not entirely sure which one.) is much easier to read than 
the other. There is a nice full screen view which eliminates the clutter of 
all the other links which are not necessary for book navigation.

I am reading a book on XML which of course is all text. If anyone has luck 
with Safari and math books, please let us know, and I will do the same.

Amanda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" <birkir.gunnarsson at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] What is the accessibility level of Safari 
onlinebooks?


> Hello
>
> I'll try this tomorrow and report back. I used these books for coding
> when I was writing Java apps for work, and the accessibility was great
> (after all the code is justplain text).
> O'reilly were one of the first publisher to care about accessibility,
> and they contribute very generously to Bookshare. I believe they would
> be at least as receptive as anyone regarding better accessibility to
> math in their books.
> If someone else knows more about the math books, please post. If not,
> I'll go out and give it a try.
> Thanks
> -B
>
> On 7/26/11, Richard Baldwin <baldwin at dickbaldwin.com> wrote:
>> I'm wondering about the accessibility level of online books at Safari.
>>
>> There is some information about their accessibility, including screen 
>> reader
>> compatibility, at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/508compliance
>>
>> I am currently working with an online version of an XML book there 
>> (45-day
>> free trial with purchase of book) and I have been happy with the
>> presentation as a sighted user.
>>
>> My XML book is available in either a PDF-like format or an HTML-like 
>> format.
>> I prefer the HTML presentation format.
>>
>> If I understand it correctly, a subscription that includes any ten books 
>> in
>> their library costs about $23 per month and you can check one book in and
>> another book out after 30 days. That would be expensive if the student 
>> only
>> needed access to one book, but would be reasonable if they need access to
>> five books for a typical semester. In fact, that would probably cost less
>> than purchasing five technical books that can only be used for one 
>> semester.
>>
>> Has anyone looked into this?
>>
>> I'm particularly curious as to how the equations in a physics or math 
>> book
>> might appear to a blind reader on the Safari site. Other that a few 
>> images
>> in the XML book, everything else seems to be very accessible, but that is
>> because XML is plain text, and plain text works well with screen readers 
>> and
>> Braille displays.
>>
>> I think they have a 10-day free trial if anyone would like to give it a 
>> try.
>>
>> Dick Baldwin
>>
>> --
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>>
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>> Austin Community College
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