[nabs-l] E-book Accessibility

[David Andrews]

Well, two things.  You might want to ask on our blindmath list, 
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath_nfbnet.org

Secondly, you may not be able to read these books depending on how 
they represent math symbols.  I am not sure most ways are accessible, 
but they will know more on blindmath list.

Dave

At 11:43 PM 6/16/2012, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>After several years of graduate seminar courses that didn't have
>textbooks, I am needing to take one more course this fall (a
>statistics course) that does have an assigned textbook. The textbook
>is not available in any of my usual databases (not surprising since
>it's math) so I requested it from Bookshare, but would like to have a
>backup option in case Bookshare isn't able to get it done by August. I
>looked on the publisher's website and found that the book is available
>for purchase as an E-book in "Epub" format. Apparently the book can be
>read on a PC using "Adobe Digital Editions" or on a mobile device
>using specific third-party apps such as "TXTR". The last time I tried
>to do this, back in 2007, I couldn't find an accessible way to read a
>mainstream E-book, but I know it's been five years and perhaps we've
>made some progress in this area? Anyway, do any of you have experience
>reading EPub files or used Adobe Digital Editions? Is Adobe Digital
>Editions accessible or if not, is it possible to convert an EPub file
>to text using a converter like RoboBraille? Also, has anyone
>successfully used any of the mainstream iPhone apps for E-books?
>Thanks for your help,
>Arielle