[Nfbsatx] Fw: [Blindtlk] IPad EBook to use voice over

[james sofka]

Hi, all.
For your information.
Jim Sofka.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Gilliam" <MikeG at salighthouse.org>
To: "james sofka" <jamessofka at att.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] IPad EBook to use voice over


> Apple is a great company.  The AFB Board gave them an "accessibility" 
> award last year.
>
> Sent from Mike's iPhone
>
> On Mar 14, 2010, at 8:50 PM, "james sofka" <jamessofka at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.
>> For your information.
>> Jim Sofka.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>> To: <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:06 PM
>> Subject: [Blindtlk] IPad EBook to use voice over
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- 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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