Hello,
Recently Cearbhall posted a link to download David Kingsbury's book, called
windows-Screen- reader- primer. The book is in word format which means its not
successful in navigating headings using VoiceDream on the iPhone.
Below my signature I am posting an email from an email group explaining how to
convert word in to Epub using a piece of software.
Its brilliant.
I got permission to post this email from one of there contributors.
ALBERT
JAWS HOME USE EDITION. VERSION 2022.2202.38
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
VERSION 21h1 (OS BUILD 19043.1526)
Subject: Screen Reader Primer and converting to ePub
Hi List,
David did an outstanding job on this book and it should be read by all that can
benefit from it. With that in mind, I loaded the Word docx file into Voice
Dream Reader on my iPhone 13 Mini to see if its navigable headings would carry
over. Unfortunately, the headings did not display in Voice Dream when headings
were selected from the Voice Dream bottomline toolbar. I decided to use the
excellent Word to ePub converter provided by The DAISY Consortium and add the
ePub version to Voice Dream Reader to see if headings then were displayed. This
worked like a charm and now I can easily peruse the navigable headings and jump
to them at my leisure in Voice Dream Reader.
I know someone asked about getting David's Windows Screen Reader Primer in
DAISY format at Tek Talk this past Monday. I think this is probably the easiest
way to do that. I'm not totally clear on the differences between DAISY and ePub
but I expect the end result using a tool provided by The DAISY Consortium is
one of the easiest ways to get there.
You can get the Word to ePub converter add-in from The DAISY Consortium at this
website:
https://daisy.org/activities/software/wordtoepub/ ;
When installed, it is very easy to use. You can call up a list of docx files in
Windows Explorer or via the Search Everything utility which I use, place focus
on the file to be converted, open a context menu with shift + F10, and select
convert to ePub from the context menu. I was successful doing so using Word
2019 on my computer running Windows 10.
Good luck to those converting this excellent resource to ePub format.
Alan Lemly
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