[access-uk] Re: The Kindle
- From: Gordon Keen <gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:49:27 +0100
Any development that improves our access to books, newspapers and journals is
to be welcomed imho.
Regards
G
From glorious Devon, England.
On 28 Sep 2010, at 14:29, Steve Nutt wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
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> Yes, but how many books are on Apple's store? Not nearly as many as are
> already on the Amazon store, some 6 Million. I think this is an exciting
> development.
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> All the best
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> Steve
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> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Gordon Keen
> Sent: Tuesday 28 September 2010 10:02
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Kindle
>
>
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> Hi
>
> ibooks are fully accessible with voiceover on the mac products, can't speak
> for other platforms or screen readers though.
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> Regards
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> G
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> From glorious Devon, England.
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> On 27 Sep 2010, at 22:04, ari wrote:
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> Yeah, I wonder if a blind person can read books on the IPad though, I can't
> test that because its not in my country yet, but its quite depressing how
> inaccessible ebooks are for us. My uni can't even buy me the Adobe Digital
> Editions version of ebooks because they are inaccessible, so we have to wait
> ages for publisher's alternative formats and special permission and all
> sorts of rubbish like that.
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