[Athen] EPUB

Noble,Stephen L. steve.noble at louisville.edu
Wed Sep 5 11:44:24 PDT 2018


Concerning the point about Chrome and Read&Write...yes, someone with a learning disability can read an EPUB with the Chrome R&W extension. The only proviso is that you have to first upload the EPUB to your Google Drive. Here's the test result:

http://epubtest.org/evaluation/440/


Hope that helps,


--Steve Noble


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I did see that Edge has the ability, but I was unable to find a way to make it read out loud. For me I would just use my screen reader, but someone with a learning disability would use a TTS like what they would use in ReadWrite Gold, and I did not see anything in Edge like this. Too bad Chrome can't read them as ReadWrite has an extension to work with that browser.



On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:42 PM George Kerscher <kerscher at montana.com<mailto:kerscher at montana.com>> wrote:

Hi,



Excellent accessibility testing of EPUB reading Apps can be found at:

http://epubtest.org/testsuite/accessibility/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__epubtest.org_testsuite_accessibility_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=67olWPWhVEsI50vpRdydglG2RHA1T81UHrTuRDeUqW4&m=K_jBUeOTAJZY-KMk5AzWo5mkhp91DpCrRLeAk8Zv_yo&s=hY3avnlcEHAl9Taz2qvetNJbT8jdKY_j_QGT0GWE0GI&e=>



Based on this testing a summary review of recommended Apps can be found on the InclusivePublishing.org website at:

https://inclusivepublishing.org/blog/june-2018-epub-reading-apps-accessibility-support/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__inclusivepublishing.org_blog_june-2D2018-2Depub-2Dreading-2Dapps-2Daccessibility-2Dsupport_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=67olWPWhVEsI50vpRdydglG2RHA1T81UHrTuRDeUqW4&m=K_jBUeOTAJZY-KMk5AzWo5mkhp91DpCrRLeAk8Zv_yo&s=R4Uo2MsR-FK9uyn5lBA6rPVFaHhjt8Q9uXcpLRAgk6Y&e=>



Many of the Reading Apps support side loading, but not all.



Joseph is correct about EasyReader by Dolphin.

Also, Edge now natively supports reading of EPUB, and they plan to fix some of the bugs we reported.



Feel free to contact me with any questions, or if anybody needs help getting started.





Best

George



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HI Robert:



We would recommend Dolphin Easy Reader<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__yourdolphin.com_product-3Fid-3D23&d=DwMFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=67olWPWhVEsI50vpRdydglG2RHA1T81UHrTuRDeUqW4&m=K_jBUeOTAJZY-KMk5AzWo5mkhp91DpCrRLeAk8Zv_yo&s=0zLkspA5AcqFMWbeQuQ1xP1oaVYJYy_LaxOdL3Xnfgw&e=>. You can read an accessibility evaluation (with a focus on low vision users) of Dolphin Easy Reader at this site: Dolphin Easy Reader Evaluation<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__epubtest.org_evaluation_459_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=67olWPWhVEsI50vpRdydglG2RHA1T81UHrTuRDeUqW4&m=K_jBUeOTAJZY-KMk5AzWo5mkhp91DpCrRLeAk8Zv_yo&s=gXiJIkf6Gz_gWITEjyk-gNkZskblyTW_lW5890TPTks&e=>.



Some of the features that I like are:



- Free

- active development

- access to multiple libraries (e.g., Bookshare, NFB, EPUB Books)

- support with VoiceOver

- Page number support

- Built in Text to Speech, including Pitch, Pause, and Pronunciation settings

- MathML support

- Multiple Formats: TXT, DOCX, HTML, EPUB, DAISY 2, DAISY 3



HTH,



Joseph



On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:20 AM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu<mailto:rspangler1 at udayton.edu>> wrote:

Hello all, since I have not found a way to convert an epub to PDF, what is a good Epub reader? This is for a student with a learning disability, not someone who is blind. That being said however I myself would appreciate it if the suggested reader were accessible.



Thanks,

Robert




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