Re: eBook Accessibility
- From: "peter op 't Hof" <opthofp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:19:19 +0100
Will,
Your observations are right.
Same goes for McGraw.Hill (books in CHM), Premier Press and Prentice Hall.
With books i have no problem and for secure files i use now Acrobat Reader
7, which is highly improved.
But an other thing caches my ear.
In your disclaimer i saw you are a MVP.
In the past i have donne the MCSE and CNE-traject and for the last years i
have donne work like designing concepts for infrastructure and such.
Because my contract with my current firm is ended on may 2005 i have to
orientate myself on the marcket again.
Motivation enough.
I am a father of a happy family.
I guess you are a MVP for developement.
I have started as a programmer in the Dosenviroment but changed my way up in
applicationmanagement, Networkspeciallist and now cunsultant.
With Jaws i can do many things but some remote tasks (like take over of a
console) i can not handle with it.
I would like to have some feed-back of you which path with Jaws in mind i
have to choose.
Knowledge for Windows 2003 is no problem.
I can do a certivicationtraject but over several years i have to do the same
again.
I am 38 years old so it is now the time to do something strategic.
My experience with projects, ITIL and PRINCE2 are enough so perhaps SAP- or
Business-Consultant is a good suggestion.
(what about the accessibility?)
I also have donne some psychology and can manage relationships with
customers very well.
I have noticed that when i continnue the Microsoft MCSE-traject i bounce on
the fact that i cannot do everything the same or not at all as a seeing
person.
With the exams i think there are now possibilities to get questions without
pictures.
When i did the traject in 1998 i had a problem with pictures on the
Networking Technologies Module.
Could you give me some thoghts?
(sorry for the bad English)
Greetings,
Peter.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:42 PM
Subject: eBook Accessibility
> Hi;
> I've just downloaded a few e-books from Amazon, and thought I would notify
> you of the current state of affairs, as books are useful in a range of
> situations.
>
> Whilst Adobe still allow content publishers to disallow content extraction
> by access technology, meaning screen readers won't be able to read books
> that have had this option disallowed, more publishers are allowing it. I
> downloaded about three books published by John Wiley and son. All these
> had content extraction by access technology allowed, which was something
> Wiley turned off in their e-books only six or so months ago. So, it looks
> like Wiley books are now accessible, as well as those from some smaller
> publishers.
>
> Whilst persuading publishers to allow access is a difficult task, and one
> Adobe should have taken the lead on by not allowing them to disable
> content extraction by access technology, it does seem as some of the big
> publishers are now gaining social consciences.
>
> Will Pearson
> Microsoft MVP
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