Re: [orca-list] reading epub's using orca, possible?

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

There's a concern that if you make the text accessible to a screen 
reader then there's a chance it could be captured and reproduced thus 
cutting out the publisher. This is why publishers are still allowed to 
keep books from being accessible in places like Amazon. the same concern 
exists over audio books which is why books from the NLS can only be 
played on certain devices. I'm not sure when you reached out to the 
developers of Calibre but it might have been before the copyright law in 
the US was changed allowing people to convert copyrighted books into 
other formats for the purposes of making them accessible. My only point 
is that I don't find the responses of the Calibre developers to be so 
absurd or stupid.





On 3/5/19 5:23 AM, Mallard wrote:
> Calibre?????
>
> I can't read anything except part of the menus in Calibre, but not the 
> actual text of the books.
>
>
> By the way, years ago I contacted the devs to report the fact that 
> ebooks weren't accessible with screen readers.
>
>
> I got a really absurd reply, i.e., they couldn't make the text 
> accessible because of copyright rules... ROFL!!!
>
>
> I pointed out to them that, if ebooks can't be read by the blind 
> because of copyright, then they shouldn't be available to sighted 
> people either...
>
> It was a stupid answer they gave me, and they never replied to my 
> second email.
>
>
> Meanwhile, at least some parts of the menus are readable, but not the 
> books, unless Orca is smarter than NVDA on this, which I'd love...
>
>
> Ciao,
>
> Ollie
>
>
>
>
> Il 05/03/2019 11:03, Arkadiusz Kozioł ha scritto:
> > Calibre*
> >
> > W dniu 03.03.2019 o 12:32, Majid Hussain via orca-list pisze:
> > > good morning,
> > > is it possible to read epub files with orca?
> > > if this is possible, what application would be advized?
> > > running on arch linux
> > > Majid
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