[Athen] RE: Ebooks

[Kathleen Cahill]

Hi Lorraine,

Looks like Wiley e-books utilize Adobe Digital Editions.  You have to use the Adobe software to read a protected version of the book.  According to this Adobe blog, Digital Editions is supposed to work with JAWS but I have not tried it (http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/category/digital-editions ).

I doubt very much that there is a way to convert the E-book to PDF.  E-books are protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to prevent copying.  If anyone knows anything more, I'd love to hear it.

Kathy


Kathleen Cahill
Assistive Technology Specialist
MIT ATIC (Assistive Tech. Info. Center)
77 Mass. Ave. 7-143
Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 253-5111
kcahill at mit.edu



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Subject: [Athen] Ebooks

HI

We have just heard that we unable to get a hard copy of the book published by Wiley in time for a student with a vision impairment.  We are able to get the book in eBook version.  My question is


1.        Has anyone had any success with the eBooks working with Jaws from Wiley

2.       How can you recommend how we can convert eBooks to PDF or word for some of our students.

Thanks

Lorraine

Lorraine S. Norwich, BSME, MSIS
Assistant Director of Disability Services
Boston University
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