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

Hello,
The project is open source however developer is looking for some funding so he can do his best in order to implement it. E.G. see here for bookmarks related issue... https://github.com/rhdunn/cainteoir-gtk/issues/6 What is a book list as you are describing it? Ability to open recently viewed books is already there and also ability to see the list of chapters. Reading can be started from any point from that list.
This is really awesome piece of software, it's well written continually maintained and the developer is cooperative, really an expert, considers accessibility and all other stuff we might have imagined. 

Another his big reference is eSpeak for android.

Greetings

Peter

On 17.11.2014 at 09:10 kendell clark wrote:

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hi
Nods, just sent out an email to the developer. If he'll add daisy
support,a nd possibly at some point later bookmarking support and book
lists, we'll have ourselves a daisy reader that can read other formats
too.
Thanks
Kendell clark
On 11/17/2014 02:06 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello, Well gtk UI for cainteoir is not as feature rich as we would
wish however I have to add another positive comments it is
accessible. Even content is rendered into a read only edit field
for some simple proof reading.

Greetings

Peter

On 17.11.2014 at 06:27 Willem van der Walt wrote:

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)

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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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