Hello; When I had my windows computer, I had no trouble shopping for, buying, downloading, or reading ebooks from fictionwise. But this was because the windows version of adobe reader is completely accessible where as the mac version of the adobe reader stinks out loud. lol The best I can do is to have adobe convert the pdf documents to text form, but then that puts a lot of blnk spaces in the book taking away from the enjoyment of reading it. Yes, they did know i was blind because my first attempt i chose microsoft's ereade instead of adobe. When i couldn't figure that out, they converted my purchases to adobe versions for free. I told the customer service people i was blind, and they took me at my word and helped me out. I think the real problem here is that the same people who make flash and adobe have no interest in going out of their way to make their products accesssible on a mac. And this is probably because of the belief out there that the blind community uses windows exclusively. I wish I could offer more help, but I thought sharing my past experiences might be welcome. Take care and good luck, Max On Aug 15, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
> > It is not accessible on Macs iPhone and Windows. > > Greg > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 16/08/2009, at 11:13 AM, Dan Eickmeier <va3...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> >> Yeah seems to me as if this company has made a deliborate effort to >> not make their product accessible, rather than an effort to make it >> accessible. Are their productsfor the Mac, iPhone, or both? >> On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: >> >>> >>> I got this back from Fictionwise.com the eReader people. This is the >>> very thing I have worried about with the action of the Author's >>> Guild >>> in the United States. >>> >>> Here we have a company claiming that screen readers are a violation >>> of >>> copyright, which is not the case either in the U.S. or Australia. >>> Furthermore in the case of the Macintosh and the iPhone the screen >>> reader is a part of the operating system and not as Fictionwise.com >>> would suggest "another program". >>> >>> It is also an interesting question if writing an application or >>> device >>> which deliberately inaccessible, as would seem to be the case here, >>> as >>> opposed to simply forgetting to include accessibility may well be >>> illegal under civil rights laws in several nations. >>> >>> At the very least Apple should not be a party to such a thing and >>> should never approve applications which have been so crippled by >>> deliberate act. >>> >>> I have asked Fictionwise to put this statement into writing and to >>> mail it to me. I would urge those of you who feel strongly about >>> this >>> issue to also contact them at supp...@fictionwise.com >>> >>> Gregory Kearney >>> Manager - Accessible Media >>> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >>> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >>> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >>> >>> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >>> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >>> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >>> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >>> Email: gkear...@gmail.com >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>>> From: "Fictionwise.com" <supp...@fictionwise.com> >>>> Date: 11 August 2009 2:49:02 AM >>>> To: gkear...@gmail.com >>>> Subject: Response for Support Ticket #102495 >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, the ability to scoop the ebook's text using another >>>> application has been disabled for copyright-protection reasons. >>>> >>>> Being able to scoop the text out, into another program, would allow >>>> for easy duplication of copyrighted materials. >>>> >>>> Our software cannot be used with screen-reader software. >>>> >>>> We apologize for the inconvenience. >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> >>>> Ted >>>> eReader.com Support Team >>>> >>>> ============================================================ >>>> You wrote: >>>> No accessibility for the blind using VoiceOver on either Mac or >>>> iPhone. Your >>>> Macintosh and iPhone applications are not accessible to the blind >>>> using the >>>> built in screen reader on both devices. Lists of book can not be >>>> navigated and >>>> books once loaded can not be read. Why is this the case? >>>> >>>> Greg Kearney >>>> Manager -Accessible Media >>>> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
