[nabs-l] Questions Regarding Textbooks on Vital Source

[Jason Polansky]

I have gotten quite a few of my books from VitalSource. I use it both
on my computer with JAWS and my iPhone bluetoothed with my
BrailleSense. The standard navigation and selection commands work
well. Pictures will often times have descriptive captions.

On 12/11/15, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> It has been a couple of semesters since I last took a college course at my
> local community college. After doing some research regarding my textbooks
> for next semester, I see that one of them is available on Vital Source. As
> I
> understand it, Vital Source recently bought out Course Smart, and claims to
> provide electronic textbooks in an accessible format.
>
> I have never used Course Smart or Vital Source before, and I am wondering
> how accessible and user friendly the Vital Source platform might be in
> terms
> of accessing my textbook. Is it easy to navigate the user platform to read
> textbooks using JAWS on a Windows based computer? Are you able to read
> rather smoothly from the beginning of a chapter or section to the end of
> the
> chapter or section when reading through the textbook? Can you use the
> normal
> JAWS commands to read through the textbook by paragraph, sentence, word, or
> character when reading through the textbook? Is it easy to copy and paste
> the text in a Word document if for some reason I cannot read through the
> text, or simply want to create my own notes outside of the platform
> features?
>
> Any comments or feedback on using Vital Source for obtaining textbooks
> would
> be greatly appreciated. I would probably use the platform on my Windows
> based computer if this helps you when providing feedback. However, any
> feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
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