[nabs-l] problems with blio

Joshua Lester jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
Wed May 9 01:10:08 UTC 2012


Just download the book from Bookshare, and read it on your IPad, and
Focus 40 Blue Braille Display, if you have one.
That's what I'm going to do, when I get my IPad, and IPhone.
The displays are $26.95.
Blessings, Joshua

On 5/8/12, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well... yeah, but that's a huge pain in the butt and I don't
> recommend it. You have to select each individual page and read
> it. For a one or two page document, that's not bad, but for a
> 400-page book it would be kinda hard.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:02:28 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] problems with blio
>
> Hi Sophie,
>
> Hmm... I'm not sure. Would you be able to just use VoiceOver to
> read it?
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Sophie Trist
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:49 PM
> To: nabs
> Subject: [nabs-l] problems with blio
>
> Hi y'all,
>
> Recently, I got the Blio app, which is an acessible Ebook reader
> for the
> iPhone. Yeserday, I bought a book from the Blio store and
> attempted to rea
> it only to find that the text-to-speech feature was not enabled.
> I doubt
> there is any way to manually enable this feature, but if there
> is, would you
> please let me know? What troubled me about this was that nowhere
> in the
> product details did it tell me whether text-to-speech was enabled
> or not.
> And just out of curiosity, why would text-to-speech not be
> enabled on a
> website specifically designed for blind users?
> Yours,
> Sophie Trist
>
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