Hi Bryan and Others, Yes, until the point that you log into Kobo, all the book titles on your home screen just get announced as "button". But once you're logged in, the titles under "My Recent Reads" get announced by VO and you can double tap on one of the announced titles to open that book. Two new pointers: first, if you want to flick and double tap to get into your library, you can now flick past "My Recent Reads" to the "iPhone Home Disclosure" button and double tap. This is instead of double tapping the unlabeled "button" in the bottom left corner of the screen above "Library". It has exactly the same effect. This new button is located on the right edge of the screen, above the large buttons for the images of books in the top half of the screen, and in the same vertical position as the "My Recent Reads" text announcement. You can also reach this button by moving your finger down the right side of the screen from the battery power information icon on the top right status bar, and past the "iPhone News Icon" button just below the status bar.
Another detail: on the home screen (when you're logged into your account), if you flick through the items on the screen, you'll find that three titles and authors under "My Recent Reads" get announced, and then there's an item with no title read out, and the boink sound that indicates you've come to the limit and can't navigate further. If you do a two finger flick down to read all, the navigation simply stops here. If, before you reach the location where you run out of title announcements, or even when you're focused on the first book title under "My Recent Reads", you do a three finger swipe right scrolling gesture on the top half of the screen, you'll hear VO say "page 2 of 2" (or more pages, if you have more recent reads), and be able to flick through the remaining titles (5 in total over the 2 scrolled pages). Continuing to flick will take you through the rest of the screen with the three large unlabeled buttons in the bottom half of the screen, for "Library", "Reading Life", and "Free Books". (All the elements on the "Free Popular" books screen are unlabeled buttons, although you can double tap to read a summary overview of these books, but apparently not read the ratings. In some cases, there are reviews by other readers that you can read. Be aware that if you double tap the "Read Now" button to download one of the free books, and nothing seems to happen because your wi-fi connection may have gone down and you're on a cellular network, you should try touching the center of the screen to find out if there's an alert that tells you you're on a cellular network and asks whether you want to download or cancel. Leave the Overview screen by double tapping the standard "Back" button in the top left corner of the screen, and leave the "Free Popular" screen by double tapping the "Icon Home" button in the top left corner. Although you can't read titles of the free books, you can change the category between "Popular", "Classics", "Mystery", and "Romance" by double tapping on one of the four tabs at the bottom of the screen.) Second pointer, especially useful for new Kobo readers, when you're in your library (e.g., the screen for "All Content", or one of the other selected tabs at the bottom, like "I'm Reading", "Finished", or "Previews"): the "Icon Gear" button in the top right corner of the screen lets you rearrange your books in list view instead of icons on a shelf view, choose your sort order, and also manage your downloads. This is important, because once your exceed 9 books in your library, you can't continue to flick through the entries in the default shelf view mode without hearing the boink sound described for the "My Recent Reads" section on the home screen. Instead, you have to stop and vertically scroll to the next page with a 3 finger swipe up, or else use the search field to find your book. If you set up list view in a previous version of the app where this setting was more accessible, and then updated, it will be remembered, but new users are out of luck if they don't know about this. To mange the shift to list view, or to change the sort order, navigate to the "Icon Gear" button in the top right corner of your Library screen and double tap. Then move your finger vertically down a bit until you hear "iPhone Download Control Download" button. This is one of three buttons in the menu, and lets you select to force download of all the books in your library. To reach the other two settings button options, move your finger horizontally a small distance to the left until you hear "iPhone Download Control List b". This is the button that lets you change from shelf view list. Double tap here. (If you are in list view mode the button will read "iPhone Download Control Shelf" and switch you back to shelf view mode.) The final button, reached by moving left to the center of the screen, is "iPhone Download Control Sort b". Double tapping this brings up a "Sort by…" menu that lets you flick to buttons for "Title", "Author", or "Recently Read", along with a "Cancel" button. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: > Hi Esther -- Thanks for following up on this. I did get Kobo working on my > iPhone after reading Anne's response on avis. It was a simple matter of my > needing to login to my kobo account. Once I did that, my library became > visible to VO, and when I logged out it became invisible again. I haven't > messed with the iPad version in a while. Thanks for the warning on that one. > > Cheers, > Bryan > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 10:34 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> Bryan, I meant to ask whether you can read with the latest version of Kobo >> Books on your iPhone. I think this should work for you if you do a clean >> reinstall of the app on your device, if it isn't already working. At the >> time this question came up on list in December, I was still using an iPhone >> 4, and because the person who wanted to use my iPhone 4 after I upgraded to >> an iPhone 5 also wanted to be able to use the old Google Maps, that device >> was still running the last version of iOS 5, and the version of the Kobo >> Books app wasn't the latest update (i.e., it matched the navigation control >> layout that Anne had on her "Kobo by FNAC" app, which was basically the >> version 5.7 Kobo used in early October 2012 - not the one the version 5.9 >> they came out with on December 17, 2012 for the question raised on the forum >> and at AppleVis. >> >> I've upgraded to an iPhone 5 with the latest iOS version and was drafting an >> answer about Kobo accessibility when Anne's answer about this showed up. >> >> So the answer is that you should be able to use Kobo Books on your iPhone. >> There is a problem with accessibility in the current version on the iPad, >> though. What's happening is that there is a button control in the top left >> corner of the screen that VoiceOver doesn't see. This actually happened >> before in one of the earlier versions of the app on the iPhone, but it >> really only affected new users who couldn't set up their libraries in list >> view without knowing about the control. If you get someone to tap on that >> button with VoiceOver toggled off, and then toggle VO on again and do a two >> finger flick up to "read all", you'll hear buttons for "settings","help", >> and "refresh", followed by "home", "library", and "reading life". >> >> This is a mess, and I haven't tried to further investigate, but I think that >> if you can set this up to get to your "Library" screen it might be usable. >> The "home", "library", and "reading life" are not buttons, but are >> apparently labels that are below buttons, just as on the iPhone Kobo home >> screen. However, the buttons are not announced or seen by VoiceOve, and >> they're small. Unlike the iPhone home screen, flicking to "library" and >> double tapping does apparently take you to the library screen of the Kobo >> app on your iPad. This really is messy, and I don't even see a good way to >> proceed with enough diagnostics to describe the problem without getting >> sighted assistance. > <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. 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