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Re: Preferences for epub reading applications/devices

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From: L Snider
Date: Dec 17, 2018 1:26PM

Oh and here is some info from the consortium that might help a bit, in
terms of what has been officially tested with combos:
epubtest.org/testsuite/accessibility/

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:21 PM L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >> > >> > >> > >>
>> >> >> >> >>
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