[guispeak] Fw: eBook Accessibility
- From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "guispeak" <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List" <gui-talk@xxxxxxxxxx>, <dtb-talk@xxxxxxxxxx>, <nfb-talk@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:01:28 -0800
Hi all -- this is a followup to the amazon ebook post I just sent. Thought
it was interesting.
Happy reading!
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Jones" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: RE: eBook Accessibility
also, there's a program called pdf magic
you can buy it from
www.readingmadeeasy.com
along with other similar tools.
this program performs ocr on pdf files thus extracting even the locked ones.
it costs around $60 and I have found it very useful.
-----Original Message-----
From: Programming-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:Programming-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Will
Pearson
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:42 PM
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx; guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: eBook Accessibility
Hi;
I've just downloaded a few e-books from Amazon, and thought I would notify
you of the current state of affairs, as books are useful in a range of
situations.
Whilst Adobe still allow content publishers to disallow content extraction
by access technology, meaning screen readers won't be able to read books
that have had this option disallowed, more publishers are allowing it. I
downloaded about three books published by John Wiley and son. All these had
content extraction by access technology allowed, which was something Wiley
turned off in their e-books only six or so months ago. So, it looks like
Wiley books are now accessible, as well as those from some smaller
publishers.
Whilst persuading publishers to allow access is a difficult task, and one
Adobe should have taken the lead on by not allowing them to disable content
extraction by access technology, it does seem as some of the big publishers
are now gaining social consciences.
Will Pearson
Microsoft MVP
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