Well spotted, Bert!
This would be very useful in other cases as well.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Subject: [fb-exchange] converting word to Epub
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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