[Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials

[Judy Jones]

Hi,

Yes, and I find that even books that do not have those annotations will still work.




Judy
sent from the Selvas braille Android tablet

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From: Sarah Blake LaRose via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024 10:48 AM
To: "Faith-talk, for the discussion of Blindness in faith and religion" <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
CC: Sarah Blake LaRose <sarah at sarahblakelarose.com>
Subject: Re: [Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials

When you look for books on Amazon, it will tell you whether they are accessible with Kindle. It will say screen reader supported, text to speech enabled. That is a good sign. I use Kindle all the time on my iPhone and read a lot of books that way. There is also a Kindle app for PC.
Rev. Dr. Sarah Blake LaRose
http://www.sarahblakelarose.com
The Lord bless you and keep you.
On Oct 25, 2024, at 10:09 PM, Ashley Bramlett via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
Judy,
This is helpful to know about alternative accessible resources.
It's nice you can use mainstream sources like the Amazon kindle Ebooks and
librivox app to read materials.

Thanks; it sounds like you can navigate some in Kindle books. I'm assuming
you have to buy them from Amazon first? I heard not all kindle books worked
with screen readers. Maybe this has changed now?

Do you just open the books and read in grade 2 braille?

You said,

" Yes, I do read with the braille or Eloquence on my BS6 in the Kindle app.
I'm really not as familiar with it on the PC.  I mostly read on my phone,
and the BS6 second.

It's been awhile since I have read with LibriVox, but did enjoy the
experience.  They do have all kinds of books."


To clarify, you read in braille or use Elloquence on a notetaker? The bs 6
is the Braille Sense 6 notetaker, right?
I did not know that had eloquence as an option.

If anyone has read kindle books using the pc, let me know how your
experience was. I'm wondering if you can open the book and navigate it like
a webpage with links as chapters. If not, how do you get from chapter to
chapter? Can it be navigated by certain pages such as using Jaws or other
screen reader to indicate what page you want and then tabbing to a go button
or something similar which would jump you to a certain page?
Does it have its own built in keyboard shortcuts for navigation?
It sounds like I need to learn how to use Kindle to broaden my reading
options.

As for LibriVox, do they even have Christian materials which are current? My
understanding of Librivox was it was a free app with free human read books
in the public domain. The fact they are older in the public domain is why
they can be read by anyone in the world.
You say you have not used it in a while. Can you remember any books you read
and liked? Can you navigate by chapter or section as you read the book?


I'm looking for books about Christian history and possibly study books for
Advent season to do with family perhaps. I'm also seeking books by pastors
such as Max Lucado or David Jeremiah. I wanted to read one of Charles
Stanley's books but never found it in audio format. I cannot remember the
book title now though.

There are websites for Christian books to order and I wish low vision and
blind people had a way to have a Christian bookstore too.


It sounds like you have used your good technology skills and used mainstream
sources for your reading needs.

Once I set up bookshare, this will help a lot. I can use my VR stream, pc or
Ipad to access such books.

Thanks,
Ashley

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