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

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: Fernando Botelho F123 org, 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 14:23:33 -0600

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according to the email he just sent me, he wants something like 5000
bucks to implement it. He also wants 1500 bucks to implement the book
list and all that goes with it. Of course, none of us can add this
ourselves, he says something about getting a group to contract him.
I'm not holding out much hope at the moment
Thanks
Kendell clark

On 11/17/2014 06:28 AM, Fernando Botelho wrote:

Does anyone know if this book reading software have interface in 
multiple languages?

Also, how much of an investment are we talking about to get it to
read Daisy?

Thanks,

Fernando

On 11/17/2014 07:27 AM, kendell clark wrote:

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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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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