Hi Josh, I'm pretty sure Adobe Digital Editions wouldn't work with shockwave files, which are flash-based. Adobe Digital Editions Preview is designed for eBook formats (PDF or ePub) which have Adobe's ADE DRM. Shockwave files don't necessarily have any DRM, to my knowledge, but are flash-based players. They're sometimes used to illustrate educational material. Since Adobe doesn't support any accessibility hooks for playing its flash content on a Mac, I'm not sure how usable this will be. You'd have to download the most current version of Adobe's flash player for the Mac, and I'm not sure that you could navigate to the controls. By contrast Adobe Digital Editions Preview has nothing to do with flash content.
I'm hopeful that the new iPad based textbook material will be able to replace shockwave content for education. One of the reasons I've been tracking the iPad iOS usage is that the iPad has been targeted for the development of textbook applications by Publishers, and early inputs from VoiceOver users has worked to keep these accessible. Even though a particular textbook may not have graphical information, a publisher is simply not going to invest in large-scale textbook efforts for iOS if the platform doesn't accommodate all the textbook material he wants to make available. (I can't imagine a publisher deciding that it's economically worthwhile to selectively leave out textbooks with pictures for biology, anatomy, and the medical sciences, just in order to put some restricted subset of his textbook content onto the iPhone.) I know that some iPad developers, such as Inkling, have brought over Psychology texts onto the iPad. Incidentally, Inkling also partnered with the Frommer's travel guides to bring out travel guide apps for the iPad with retina graphics support when the third generation iPads came out. I was pleasantly shocked to find out that these guides were entirely accessible --- all the photographs and images were tagged with descriptions of their content. They're not the only textbook publishers on the iPad platform. As another example that interactive textbook content can be accessible. I'll note there is a recently announced free book to go along with the free Stanford University course on "iPad and iPhone Application Development" taught by Paul Hegarty and available through iTunes U. The free book of the same name has material that complements the course, and is available for download from iBooks. (The book can only be viewed in iBooks 2 or later using an iPad that is running iOS 5.0 or later.) It appears to be accessibile, though I've only read through the first bits. Here are the relevant links, if anyone is interested: • The iTunes U course on "iPad and iPhone Application Development" by Paul Hegarty, Stanford University, Fall 2011 https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-development/id473757255 • The free iBook by Daniel H. Sternberg supplementing the same course (iPad only!!!!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipad-iphone-app-development/id572052683?mt=11 HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:21, Josh Gregory wrote: > Hi, would this software work with shockwave files? I have a whole lot of > those that I have to read for psychology, and currently no way to view them > independently. Thanks for any assistance, it is greatly appreciated. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > >> Hi Jim, >> >> No, it's not currently possible to read line-by-line in Adobe Digital >> Editions Preview. However, you can use VO-Shift-C to copy the contents of >> the current page to clipboard, and then paste into TextEdit, where you can >> read the copied contents line-by-line, or use any of the other VoiceOver >> reading options. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:12, Jim Noseworthy wrote: >> >>> Hi Gang: >>> >>> Is it possible to read material line-by-line using Adobe Digital Editions? >>> >>> Thanks all over the place gang. >>> <--- 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/>
