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 14:40:29 -0600
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only way I could possibly think of doing something like this is
something like a kickstartter campagne, but this is OT to this list
completely, so I'll not say anything else here. If someone wants to
email me off list and i'll try to figure out how. I've never done one
before.
Thanks
Kendell clark
On 11/17/2014 02:25 PM, Fernando Botelho wrote:
Wow, there goes my hope of something affordabel and quick.
Thanks,
Fernando
On 11/17/2014 06:23 PM, kendell clark wrote:
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)
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:18:49
+0530 From: 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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