Accessibility for the Viewer

bob _coo · 01-18-2013, 01:54 PM

Could you add a shortcut keys / icons for selecting the text in the viewer? Maybe, have one shortcut / icon to select all of the text in the book and another set of shortcut / icon just for selecting the text that is on the screen. This will help people with disabilities that use the text to speech feature on their machines. Sometimes a mouse and a trackpad is difficult to use. It would be great if the shortcut key is one key or two keys that is next to each other, so the person would just needed to hit in the middle of the two keys.

Thanks,

Bob

DoctorOhh · 01-18-2013, 06:00 PM

Bob, Welcome to MobileRead.

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kovidgoyal · 01-18-2013, 11:07 PM

If you wish to get all text from a book a much better way to do it is to convert it to txt and then open the txt in whatever screenreader you want to use.

01-18-2013, 01:54 PM	#1
bob _coo Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Calibre viewer	Accessibility for the Viewer Could you add a shortcut keys / icons for selecting the text in the viewer? Maybe, have one shortcut / icon to select all of the text in the book and another set of shortcut / icon just for selecting the text that is on the screen. This will help people with disabilities that use the text to speech feature on their machines. Sometimes a mouse and a trackpad is difficult to use. It would be great if the shortcut key is one key or two keys that is next to each other, so the person would just needed to hit in the middle of the two keys. Thanks, Bob

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01-18-2013, 06:00 PM	#2
DoctorOhh US Navy, Retired Posts: 9,897 Karma: 13806776 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Kindle PaperWhite SE 11th Gen	Bob, Welcome to MobileRead. Moderator Notice Moved the thread to general calibre forum. The development forum is not the place to ask for feature requests unless you intend to do the work. Please read the "PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING - The purpose of this subforum" sticky post from the top of the Development forum. For those new to the forum at the top of all calibre forums are sticky posts with information on many frequently asked questions.

01-18-2013, 11:07 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If you wish to get all text from a book a much better way to do it is to convert it to txt and then open the txt in whatever screenreader you want to use.

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