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Re: Preferences for epub reading applications/devices

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From: L Snider
Date: Dec 17, 2018 1:21PM

I am working on an EPUB project right now, and I am seeing that Dolphin
Easy Reader is used by many on the Mac with voiceover...Also Adobe Digital
Editions, but that is problematic in places too...Voice Dream as well, as
already mentioned.

For Windows I have seen Vital Source Bookshelf mentioned a lot.

In my experience and research, do mobile and desktop, and braille devices
too, along with low vision and cognitive, as ebooks are used by many people
for many reasons.

EPUBs are complex, because the readers interaction with the screen readers
(I am also testing other AT but don't have that data yet) can be
problematic, and then there is the EPUB content...It is not for the faint
of heart (ha ha!).

Cheers

Lisa




On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:55 PM Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It seems the most preferred solution on the Apple platforms is a third
> party IOS app called "Voice Dream".
>
> I have heard complaints on the MacVisionaries list about Books on the
> Macintosh platform. Apparently the read all does not consistently read
> through all material.
> > On Dec 17, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Jackson, Derek <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have information on, or experience with screen reader, EPUB
> desktop applications that are more common or typical for users? We want to
> do some QA for EPUBs and could use some direction on what combinations to
> look at (e.g. Voice Over/iBooks, Readium/NVDA, ???). Is there a preference
> among users of AT that we want to be sure and check? I am thinking
> primarily about desktop EPUB reading applications but if that is a poor
> assumption what are the alternative platforms/devices?
> >
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Derek
> >
> >
> > Derek Jackson
> >
> > Associate Director, Content Publishing
> >
> > Harvard Business School Publishing
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > >