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

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

There is cainteoir which now supports epub3 with media overlays.
The player, however is not feature-ritch at the moment.  If someone is 
good at writing c++, that player could be expanded to be quite good.
The cainteoir library supports reading a number of formats.
On Android, there is a player called menestrelo which is good for reading 
epub3.
HTH, Willem


On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Steve Holmes wrote:

> 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,
> >         poppler lists freedesktop org
> > Subject: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually
> >         Impaired
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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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