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From: mhysnm1964@gmail.com
Date: Dec 17, 2018 11:09PM

Brandon

Does Voice-Dream maintain links, table structure, ETC?
Apple Book supports Epub as well.
QRead from my experience is it removes all the HTML Semantic information.
Personally, I do not like Voice-Dream as I find the interface to busy and
difficult to navigate when using text. Also the UI is somewhat clunky.

I haven't found something that has a nice clean simple interface to read
with EPub. I have not tried Kindle book reader as I not sure if it supports
EPub. Again, browsers should really rule the roost here.

Edge works well with Narrator. Jaws and NVDA has issues in finding the
content. Once found, it works okay. But Edge has a range of other issues.
Hopefully the change to the Crhome Engine, will help here.

Sean




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Andrews, David B (DEED)
Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2018 8:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Preferences for epub reading applications/devices

There is a lot of test data at:

www.epubtest.org

Dave



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Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 3:09 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Preferences for epub reading applications/devices

Hello,
There is no solid leader on PC for Epub at the moment. None of the Epub
readers have all features of Epub 3 and the most accessible readers don't
have any of the new Epub3 features.
Here are the PC readers:

1. QRead
2. Microsoft Edge
3. Cobo
4. Adobe Digital Editions

My money is on Microsoft Edge becoming the leader in the near future until
Chrome or Firefox get into the game.

For IOS:
Voice Dream Reader is the leader
I don't know if Read to Go has Epub support, but it would be number 2.
Then IBooks is number 3.

Android has lots of custom book readers on the Braille Note Touch and other
Braille note-takers that blind users use.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;


On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:09 AM Jackson, Derek <
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> 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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