[access-uk] Re: .smil files
- From: "Richard Godfrey-McKay" <lists.godfrey-mckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:19:21 +0100
It's surely a Daisy book which you could read with netplextalk. There will
also be MP3 files which you cuuld play with your usual player.
Richard
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Vincent Thacker
Sent: 10 April 2014 14:17
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] .smil files
Talking of dodgy formats, RNIB sent me a book composed of .smil files. These
are a kind of XML file containing multimedia, I believe. RealPlayer will
open them, but then there are loads of syntax errors. Lawdy, all this to
read a book? I don't have a clue what the syntax errors actually are, so
maybe there's some kind of test program that will show them up?
Any clues, anyone.
Vince.
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Subject: [access-uk] accessible program for .mobi files?
hello all,
does anyone know of any window-eyes accessible software for reading .mobi
files?
as in typical RNIB mismanagement fashion, the super easy to use .doc and
newsreader format is being discontinued as part of there take over of tnauk,
and the html versions as one of the formats set to replace it, A can't be
downloaded, and B is very tedious to navigate. the only other options are
text, which is going to be even worse, epub, which to the best of my
knowledge isn't a very usable format with screenreaders, (although I am not
100% sure that is the case), and this new and to me unknown .mobi format.
out of the 3 bits of software I have managed to find for this format,
Mobipocket ebook Reader, Stanza Desktop, and calibre E-book reader, I could
only get the calibre one to actually download, and that seems to be a dead
loss access wise.
Simon
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