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

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>
Cc: Dhairyashil Bhosale <dhairyashil bhosale584 gmail com>, "orca-list gnome org" <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:27:25 -0600

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hi
My idea of a book list is one where you can select a directory where
your books are kept, and the program will go through and get the books
available in that folder by analyzing the books xml data. This would
work equally for epub as well as daisy books.
It might display something like the following. books list view. book
title 1: current position: wherever you left off. Etc.
Thanks
Kendell clark

On 11/17/2014 03:14 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:

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:


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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<gnome-accessibility-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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- Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
  - From: Dhairyashil Bhosale
- Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
  - From: Steve Holmes
- Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
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- Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
  - From: Peter Vágner
- Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired
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