Go figure, I don't have an iPad. I don't think I'll be able to get one. :-( I wonder if textbooks will someday be available on the iPhone. what about on the Mac?
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > 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/> <--- 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/>. 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