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06-02-2010, 09:11 AM | #1 |
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Royal national institute for the blind praise iPads abilty to 'read; books out...
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/3341...raises-of-ipad
"Kiran Kaja is blind and uses a screen reader. He says: "The VoiceOver screen reader on iPhone 3GS and iPad provides very good accessibility both to built-in and to third-party applications. But being able to buy a book from the iBooks and read it instantly is a feature that I never expected would be available to blind people"." I thought companies had been blocked from making books be 'readable' by a computer voice? |
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I believe? Amazons menu system had no voice over so there was no way to navigate to a book in the first place? |
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06-02-2010, 09:59 AM | #4 |
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How do you get VoiceOver to work in iBooks? I'm an iPad user from the US.
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06-02-2010, 10:04 AM | #5 |
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Settings/General/Accessibility/VoiceOver-On turns it on..but I can't get it to stay on with iBooks.
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