[Athen] Listening to PDF files on iPad and iPhone

[Sean J Keegan]

 > And VoiceOver can read the PDF once it is open.
 > (The iPhone has native support for PDFs.)

The catch with using VoiceOver with PDFs, though, is that it is a bit 
challenging to navigate through the document. VoiceOver seems to always 
start reading from the top of the document.  You could navigate from 
page to page, but once on the page VoiceOver seems to read only from the 
top again. If anyone has any suggestions as to what may be happening, 
please post (navigating ePub content is not a problem, just PDF files).

Another suggestion was iBooks and that could be an option.  You can open 
the PDF in iBooks, but to have better navigation control you would need 
to convert the PDF to an ePub document using a converter such as 
something like Calibre
(http://calibre-ebook.com), but this is fairly simple.

Definitely some options to consider and it's hard to beat free. Most of 
the students I have worked with, though, tend to prefer more natural 
sounding voices and the iOS VoiceOver voice was not the first (or 
second) choice.

Take care,
Sean