[Athen] question on accessible windows application to read epub

[David Andrews]

Some people have had trouble with Digital 
Editions locking up on them.  Also, I could be 
wrong but it is my understanding that Adobe is no 
longer updating the program -- so probably not the best choice.

Dave

At 12:04 PM 5/29/2018, you wrote:

>Hi Norm,

>

>As someone else here mentioned, Adobe Digital 

>Editions works quite well with screen readers 

>when reading ePub documents. You can usually 

>press shift + tab from the content of the 

>document and you will be placed in a table of 

>contents. You can open the table of contents 

>with the right arrow, navigate to the 

>chapter/section you want, press enter, and then 

>tab back into the content of the document, and 

>you will be placed at the location you chose in the table of contents.

>

>Hope this helps.

>

>Russell

>

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: athen-list 

>[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Norm Coombs

>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:29 AM

>To: athen-list at u.washington.edu

>Subject: [Athen] question on accessiblewindows application to read epub

>

>Years ago, I used AMIS to read DAISY books on my PC. i had mistakenly

>assumed by now it would be upgraded to handle EPUB but apparently not.

>I know of windows software READHEAR by GH LLC and EasyReader by Dolphin

>but neiter is free for windows. (EasyReader has free apps for smart

>phones but so far as I understand not for windows.

>Can someone recomment a windows application that works OK with screen

>readers and will handle EPUB content?

>

>It seems to me it must be there but that I missed it somehow.

>

>Thanks,

>Norm



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