Hi Zachary, You are a genius! I checked my iBooks themes and indeed found that the scroll theme was somehow checked. I checked the books theme instead and it now all works fine. So many thanks for that! Best regards....
Paul Hopewell On 3 Feb 2013, at 20:26, Zachary Kline <zkl...@speedpost.net> wrote: > My thoughts here, did you perhaps change the default theme? I believe that > one of them, continuous scroll, is not as accessible as it could otherwise > be. Beyond this, I'm fresh out of ideas. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > >> Hello Paul, >> >> Is this a book that you got from the iBooks Store that is in ePub format? >> Specifically, could this be a book that was created elsewhere, and where you >> used the "open in" feature to open this in IBooks. Alternatively, could >> this have large amounts of embedded graphics? >> >> I haven't experienced the problems you describe. There are some multimedia >> books in the iBooks store where navigation can be odd. The only places >> where I've generally found additional material that might not be read >> automatically with the two finger swipe down are in the new interactive >> eBooks that are distributed for iPad only, and that require iOS 6 to run. >> >> For example, I found there is a free interactive eBook named "User Guide to >> Prizmo 2" and its counterpart in French, "Mode d'emploi pour Prizmo 2" by >> Sandrine Loiseau. I'm reading these with the iOad in landscape mode, and >> there are two pages on either side. If I start a two finger swipe down from >> the beginning of a section, VO reads the included text, but if I touch the >> left side of the page, just under the section header, I'll access an "In a >> nutshell" summary of the key chapter points. Also, if I double tap the >> table of contents button, "page thumbnails" appear along the bottom of the >> screen. If I want to navigate with them, I have to tap to select one. Then >> I can use a three finger scroll left or right to move by chapter groups of >> thumbnails. Alternatively, I can flick right or left to the next thumbnail. >> Double tapping a thumbnail takes me to that page, and I'm finding that the >> first page in these chapters reads an overview, then stops with the "bonk" >> noise for not > be >> ing able to navigate further. So I double tap the table of contents button >> to bring up the page thumbnails, touch the thumbnail in the bottom left >> corner to focus on it (VO announces something like "thumbnail 17, first page >> in chapter"), I flick right to "page 18", and double tap. If I touch the top >> left of the page, just under the toolbar, I'll hear "Section 1 Importing >> Documents". At this point if if do the two finger flick down, VO will read >> the section contents. But if I touch the left side of the screen below the >> heading, I'll hear the "In a Nutshell" summary points for this section. >> >> The experience is different in portrait mode. The text read continuously, >> including the summary before sections, and double tapping the table of >> contents brought a listing of the four chapters with an "expand or collapse >> section outline" button that would show/hide the subsection titles. Here >> you double tap the sections to go to those pages. I was finding the >> continuous reading less stable in this configuration mode, as though it were >> loading a larger block of content at a time, and sometimes not finishing >> with the update. >> >> The interactive iPad-and-iOS 6-only are the only iBooks for which I have >> seen this kind of behavior, though. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Feb 3, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Paul Hopewell <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I am running iBook on my iPhone 3GS under IOS 6.1. I am using the two >>> finger downward swipe to read the book continuously from start to finish. >>> this worked fine on my first iBook (under IOS 6.0). >>> >>> With this, my second iBook, VoiceOver seems to omit large chunks of text. >>> From the page numbers at the bottom of each page I seem to be reading all >>> the book's physical pages but there are big discontinuities between the >>> bottom of one physical page and the start of the next physical page. I >>> wonder if the source book is formatted as two columns per physical page and >>> VoiceOver is only reading the left hand columns? >>> >>> As I am doing this on an iPhone there are many iPhone pages for each >>> physical book page, even if I use the smallest font. >>> >>> Do you have any thoughts on what might be happening and on what I can do to >>> fix it? 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