David and list,
I'm not sure how epub documents carry their electronic DRM. I would say
probably none to very few. Apple is very license conscious and do not want
to violate DRM in any way so they are probably going to block any document
they can not confirm the DRM status on.
DRM (Digital Rights Management) is controlling the accessibility of many
ebooks. Text to speech is easy, tracking whether you have the rights to do
it is hard. The big problem as I understand it is that there are two
licenses for a printed work. One covers it in printed form and the other
covers it in spoken form. Text to speech is covered under the spoken
license so if the publisher has not released the work with the spoken
license then the display device can not convert text to speech even if it
has the capability to do so.
Hope this helps, and if I have any information that is incorrect let me
know.
Paul
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] reading epub formats with a screen reader:
by limitted do you mean none?
On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Pratik Patel wrote:
Yes. If other epub books are not DRM'd then you will be able to use the
iPad to read them. Right now, there are very limited options for playing
epub books in an accessible manner.
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Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] reading epub formats with a screen reader:
According to apple, their format is epub and it will be readable with
voiceover. What I want to know is whether or not other epub books will be
readable with voiceover and if there is another way of accessing them?
On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Pratik Patel wrote:
David,
You will be able to import all nonDRM epub files into iTunes/iBookstore and
read them via the iPad. I suspect this functionality will be made available
for the iPhone this summer.
Pratik
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Subject: [VICUG-L] reading epub formats with a screen reader:
all;
From what I've read, it will be possible to read electronic apple books
using voiceover on the I Pad. What I am not clear about is whether this
applies to all epub books or just the ones that are a available through the
i book store.
Is there another screen reading solution for epub content?
Thanks!
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