Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

That’s too bad about epub readers. I think these other solutions involving conversions and kludging around 
with other formats just ruins the epub experience. I really like the direct navigation features found in 
Apple’s iBooks applications on all their devices. I wonder if evince can deal with PDF books though. Has 
anyone had a chance to try this? Many times, books are released in PDF as an alternative to epub but still 
include much of the navigations normally available in epub. My biggest complaint with converting stuff to 
plain text or whatever is you lose all that rich navigation that comes with hyper text publications. Even 
HTML books navigate OK but you can’t place bookmarks throughout the text with a web browser.

> On Nov 6, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Dhairyashil Bhosale <dhairyashil bhosale584 gmail com> wrote:
>
> HI, 
>
> As you mentioned about e-book reader, the FBReader, CoolReader and Calibre e-book readers are widely used 
> on Linux platform but I am also looking some other e-book reader that will support all type of e-book 
> format and will accessible with Orca. So I have some information regarding to your queries 
>
> > > What are the tools available to read e-books?
>
> :- The FBReader, CoolReader and Calibre are available for Linux and Android 
> platform. but FBReader and CoolReader have limited support for e-book format,
> but Calibre support all type of e-book format and Calibre is open source for Linux platform but not for 
> Android. Lucidor is also used for reading e-books but its have limited feature.
>
> > >  Accessibility issues (if any) with e-book reader?
>
> :-  The FBReader, CoolReader and Calibre are not accessible to orca. I used these e-book reader with Orca 
> but Orca is not able to read these e-book readers. But Lucidor e-book reader is accessible with orca screen 
> reader, but it have some issue while reading e-books.
>
> > >  Navigation related issues with e-book reader?
>
> :- while using these e-book reader they have limited navigation feature, if we press mouce-scroll button 
> for zoom-in then it will not work as page number wise.
> so these e-book readers have limited navigation facilities.
>
>
> With Regards,
> Dhairyashil
>
>  
> 6.  Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
>       (Leena Chourey)
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:18:49 +0530
> From: Leena Chourey <leenagour gmail com>
> To: Orca-list <orca-list gnome org>,    gnome-accessibility-list
>         <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>,   evince-list gnome org,
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> Dear all,
>
> While exploring about the e-book reading facility for Visually Impaired, I
> found that various formats like epub, pdf are availble. Various readers
> like FBReader, Coolreader, Caliber people use. Please help to find answer
> for my queries about
>
>    - What are the tools available to read e-books?
>    - Is it require to have specific readers to read e-books?
>    - Widely used e-book readers working on Linux & Android platform and
>    with screen reader like Orca
>    - Accessibility issues (if any) with e-book reader
>    - Navigation related issues with e-book reader
>
>
> With regards
>
> Leena
>
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