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From: "Alan Clendinen" <alanclendinen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 04:43:38 -0500
Kerri,

Thanks for your informative reply. The Adobe Reader PDF ebook I bought came 
from ebooks.com. I have figured out how to access this ebook using Adobe 
Acrobat Reader 7 by going into the View menu, opening the Navigation 
submenu, and putting a check on "Pages." Now when I read each page of the 
ebook (using the PC cursor) and get to the end of the page, I simply press 
the F6 function key until JAWS says "Pages" and then I can arrow down 
through a list of buttons which are labeled with numbers representing each 
page of the ebook. I arrow to the page-button I want to read and press the 
spacebar, and Adobe Reader loads that page and begins reading it.

The only down-side to not being able to use the screen-reader accessibility 
options to configure the page layout, is when you are trying to read an 
ebook which has text-boxes or multiple column layout. JAWS will try to read 
across both columns, mixing the text from the columns together. But as long 
as the ebook has a standard layout, Adobe Reader can access it by this 
method.

Alan

Kerri wrote:

Unfortunately, from what I have seen and learned, the adobe ones are not 
accessible.
Get the Mobipocket ones or the Pom Reader (formerly called ereader)  It is 
available from ereader.com I think.
I definitely know the mobipocket ones can be read with Jaws that are secure. 
If ebooks.com does not have them in Mobipocket format another great source
with similiar pricing and around the same selection of books is 
fictionwise.com.  If you read ebooks with Mobipocket reader, you have to use 
the Jaws cursor
and it is a little complicated to do but it is possible.

A great site which gives instructions on how to use all the formats with 
Jaws and tells a lot about reading Ebooks and which ebooks can be read using 
secure
formats can be found at:
http://www.panix.com/~kestrell/sources.html

Hope this helps.
Kerri

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Alan Clendinen
  To:
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 2:41 PM
  Subject: JAWS & ebooks

  Hey listers,

  Have any of you bought ebooks in the Adobe Reader PDF format from 
ebooks.com?

  Ebooks.com wants you to download "Adobe Digital Editions" to read their 
PDF ebooks, but I'm wondering if this reader software is accessible with 
JAWS.

  When I attempt to use Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 (screen-reader accessible 
version) to read this ebook, the copy protected ebook prevents Adobe Acrobat 
Reader
from configuring the ebook so it is JAWS accessible.

  If any of you have a solution, please speak up. Thanks!

  Alan
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