[Athen] RE: Ebooks

[Ron Stewart]

Norm is correct, all print related functionality is disabled in ADE.  They
are read only.

 

Ron Stewart

 

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[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Prof Norm
Coombs
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 2:14 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] RE: Ebooks

 

I have found adobe digital editions very accessible for reading. Cutting and
pasting seems to be out.
At 10:52 AM 10/10/2013, you wrote:



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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
<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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<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu> ] On Behalf Of
Norwich, Lorraine S
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:44 PM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu
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
19 Deerfield Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02215
lnorwich at bu.edu (email)
617-353-3658 (vox)
617-353-9646 (fax)
www.bu.edu/disability (website)
 
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