Hi Robbie,
My purpose in replying here (only in a small part) to your previous email,
was to deal with the technical matter of VoiceOver on iOS )(as it operates
in iOS13.2.2).
No doubt, there are legislative options available: i.e., that publishers of
educational texts make an accessible copy of each textbook at least
available to the special-formats publisher/organisation.
But BookShare - ITSELF THE SPINOFF OF ANOTHER nonprofit organisation -
existed in the US for several years before it first came to our shores. Now
you may know all of this. Many of the books still available on BookShare are
OCR-scanned copies done by volunteers, (many of whom are vision-impaired,)
using technologies such as Kurzweil 100 and OpenBook. In America, unless you
are a college or school student, you pay $50 for an annual subscription,
although if you're a
volunteer scanner you can build up credits towards a free annual
subscription. Nowadays, fortunately, there are increasing amounts of digital
copies of books available, making the job of rendering them accessible
(normally) easier.
So that's the kind of set-up that's already there. I know that publishers
have been resistant in ceding any control over who gets to redistribute
their precious book wares, for fears of piracy, what they term theft, etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: RobbieS
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 2:13 PM
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: NCBI launches Bookshare Ireland - creating
equity of access
Hi Flor,
Thanks for that. It certainly takes care of the technical point.
But remember that the technical opint was only as an example in a
wider area of structural/systemic foreseeable difficulties.
In Touch did a half a programme on the problems being experienced by
UK students with BookShare. The RNIB runs BookShare in Britain, and
in fairness, the RNIB weere not faulted during the programme. The
problems lay with individual publishers not providing titles in
accessible formats, and applying DRM which reduced accessibility etc.
Again, though, if these publishers were dealing directly with the
State, they would be more accountable and have more legal obligations.
Regards,
Robbie
On 11/16/19, Flor Lynch <florlync@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,===========================================================
It isn't impossible to fill in the date fields - pop-up buttons - using
VoiceOver on a 6S or other iPhone (using iOS13.2.2), though it may appear
so. (In that respect, it's like many other forms with multiple fields to
fill in.) We need to use the Rotor on the Date Of Birth pop-ups, and
adjust
the values to get our correct DOB's. In the event you find that the day of
the month can't be changed now, move down to the Month and change
that; then flick up again to the day; or you may prefer to deal with the
Year first, and then move back up to the Month and Day fields, adjusting
the
value on the Rotor to your desired number in each case. The Previous and
Next buttons may also be helpful here, as in the rest of the form.
===========================================================
The vip_students mailing list
Manage account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/vip_students
Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/vip_students
Administrative contact: support@xxxxxxx
===========================================================
