Well, I never thought I'd see this day, but it seems the Barnes & Noble "Nook" App has been made VO accessible with today's release of version 3.3.0.
The "What's New" section of this release includes the following information: New in 3.3: - New language support for British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. - Now with UK NOOK Books and Magazines support. - Now leveraging Apple assistive technology, including screen magnification and VoiceOver, to be accessible to blind and low vision users. - Now with iPhone 5 support . After installing the upgrade on my iPhone 4S running IOS 6.01, I launched the App and was able to fully access all elements from the initial splash screen to the license agreement to the country selection and login screens. After logging in using my BN account, I was presented with a popup asking me if I wanted to take a tutorial on using the accessibility gestures. I tapped OK and was presented with a very nicely done and thorough text-based tutorial. It appears BN has wisely chosen to follow the standard VO guidelines. There is a continuous reading mode as well as an interactive mode, and standard rotor and item chooser controls seem to be fully supported. I downloaded two books, did a quick read-through on both, and it appears the Developers have been quite thorough about labeling buttons and controls and providing audible feedback when appropriate. I look forward to spending more time with this App and trying it on my iPad when my schedule permits, and I'm interested in hearing from other folks who give it a spin. If this truly does make Barnes & Noble's collection available to VO IOS Users, I think it is a huge step forward. Cheers, Bryan On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Paul Hopewell <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> wrote: > Hello, > I am updating a web page on accessible books. > > I know about sources of audio books and about book share and project > Gothenburg for text books. I recall seeing references in this forum to other > commercial sources of accessible text Ebooks. Can someone please remind me of > the names and ideally the web sites for these sources. > > I understand that all books in the Apple iTunes iBook store can be read using > VoiceOver on an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. Is that correct? Does anyone know > roughly how many books there are in the iBooks store? > > Is there any way to read books from the iBooks store on an iMac running Mac > OS? If so is there also any way to read books from the iBooks store on a > Windows computer? I suspect that iBooks can only be read on IOS devices. > > Many thanks. > > Paul Hopewell > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
