[nabs-l] Fwd: IPad EBook to use voice over

Sarah Thomas seacknit at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 20:54:56 UTC 2010


This sounds promising.  It made me think more about some of the Apple
products.  I'm now wondering if any of the bar code scanner apps for the
iPhone work with Voice Over.  Has anyone out there tried?

Sally Thomas

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Kerri Kosten <kerrik2006 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey All:
>
> not sure if many of you saw this or not, but this looks like good news
> on the ebooks front. I received this from the list for blind users of
> Apples Iphone.
> Hope you all enjoy! This sounds like great news and for once it sounds
> like blind/visually impaired Ipad users will have access to an Ebook
> store almost like on the Kindel.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joney <talk2owen at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:03:24 -0500
> Subject: IPad EBook to use voice over
> To: viphone at googlegroups.com
>
> Thought some of you would be interested in this considering the run round
> Amazon had.
>
>
>
> Apple's iBooks Store and Reader to Support VoiceOver
>
> 12 March, 2010 @ 3:19 pm by Lioncourt
>
>
>
> As Apple began taking pre-orders today for its new iPad device, they
> released a few more details about the product. Most exciting among these
> for
> VoiceOver
>
> users is the news that iBooks, the application that doubles as a digital
> bookstore and electronic book reader, will support VoiceOver.
>
>
>
> Apple's
>
> iBooks page
>
> describes its accessibility thus:
>
> Block quote start
>
>
>
> Unlike a paper book - or e-books on other devices - you can change iBooks
> on
> iPad to suit the way you read. Turn iPad to portrait to view a single page.
>
> Or view two pages at once by rotating to landscape. Change the text size.
> Even change the font. Touch and hold any word to look it up in the built-in
> dictionary
>
> or Wikipedia, or to search for it throughout the book and on the web.
> iBooks
> works with VoiceOver, the screen reader in iPad, so it can read you the
> contents
>
> of any page. Even with all these extras, reading is so natural on iPad, the
> technology seems to disappear.
>
> Block quote end
>
>
>
> Our readers will remember the
>
> controversy last year
>
> when the
>
> Authors' Guild
>
> tried to block text-to-speech on Amazon's Kindle book reader, claiming that
> text-to-speech was equivalent to audio book performances by human
> narrators.
>
>
>
> The guild will find it much harder to argue that bizarre stance this time,
> as the access is being offered via VoiceOver rather than a generalized
> text-to-speech
>
> option. By taking this approach, Apple will be providing VOiceOver users
> with a streamlined experience, and putting the
>
> Authors' Guild
>
> in a position of specifically having to oppose access for visually impaired
> users to their content. We do not believe the guild will want to try to
> take
>
> such a hostile stance.
>
>
>
> The iBooks application will also work as a reader for free books in ePub
> format, whether that content was purchased from the iBooks store or not.
>
>
>
> Once again, Apple is putting visually impaired users on equal footing with
> their sighted fellows.
>
>
>
>
>
> Joney
>
> "If God can bring you to it,
> He will lead you through it."
>
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