[Athen] free accessible EPUB reader?

[Lisa Snider]

EPUBs are still a pain in many ways. Just a note on Readium... it died in October or November due to a Chrome update, and they couldn't go forward. It is our best hope of a usable e-reader, and many are hoping it will return in a different way.

Making EPUBs accessible and reading them are still a major issue, it is like websites in the late 90’s...

Cheers

Lisa

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> On Mar 4, 2019, at 2:33 PM, S A. Marositz <SAMAROSITZ at pasadena.edu> wrote:

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> Hi All

>  

> I just want to throw out one more suggestion. The Chrome Web App Readium works fairly well with screen readers.

> http://www.daisy.org/daisypedia/readium-chrome-getting-started-guide

>  

> HTH

>  

> Alex

> From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Karlen Communications

> Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 9:58 AM

> To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] free accessible EPUB reader?

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> Thanks. I finally got the Reading Tools toolbar to show in Edge but it keeps disappearing up under the Address Bar and I have to refresh the screen in order to make it visible again, then quickly find the mouse and click on it in order to keep it visible.

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> Am finding reading EPUB as challenging as reading PDF. J

>  

> Cheers, Karen

>  

> From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Michael Nakai

> Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 12:50 PM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] free accessible EPUB reader?

>  

> Most of our students that need this are savvy enough to use a Mac and iOS with VoiceOver. To that, they use iBooks as it works with

> VoiceOver

> Also, for students in our office, we offer access to Kurzweil 3000/Firefly which also has built in EPUB support.

>  

> On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 6:06 AM Karlen Communications <info at karlencommunications.com> wrote:

> Hi:

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> It’s been a long time since I taught how to create Daisy books and knew what readers were accessible.

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> I’m taking a look at EPUB and I’ve created a book from one of my tutorials. I now want to read it, but didn’t want to use the Calibre viewer/the app I used to create the book as I want to see how it reads in another viewer.

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> Any suggestions on a free but good EPUB reader that is accessible? What are students and faculty using?

>  

> Cheers, Karen

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