Hi, I have mailed aple accessibility as well. These things should just work imho without you having to make your own shortcuts, the default ones should just do their job. I am happy that it works for you though. Greetings, Anouk,
On 09 Aug 2014, at 18:37, Caitlyn Furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, OK. > > Well, to get to the next chapter, I have made my own shortcut, control n. > Control p is for previous chapter. You can set these up in keyboard in the > system prefs. The given shortcut for next chapter in i books doesn't seem to > work for me, it's supposed to be command shift right arrow, but all that does > is highlight the current line here. that's why I made my own shortcuts. > For me, after I hit control n, I have to stop intereacting with the current > chapter and then vo right arrow to the next one, then interact again. > > The table of contents doesn't stay on the screen long enough to actually > navigate to things. As soon as you try to move the vo cursor up or down to > read the contents, it goes away, so this is useless for me. > > I have sent email to accessibility at apple to make them aware of these > things.. > hth, > Cait > > On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Anouk Radix <radix.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, my problem is that i only seem to be able to do it by using the item >> chooser and even that stops at a certain point. >> If i try to read it normally then i cant get to the next page or chapter. >> Also i could never seem to figure out how to use the table of contents to >> navigate to a spot directly. >> Admittedly it has been a few months since i tried this though. >> Greetings, Anouk, >> On 09 Aug 2014, at 13:50, Caitlyn Furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> thanks for the tip. >>> >>> Just curious, what sorts of problems are you having trying to read in >>> ibooks with braille? I've been doing it for about a week now and don't see >>> a problem? >>> Caitlyn >>> >>> On Aug 9, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Anouk Radix <radix.an...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> I am not sure about the legalities of this but since ibooks on the mac is >>>> rather inaccessible with a braille display and even though you can use a >>>> braille display on ios it just does not feel as comfortable as reading >>>> braille on a mac to me. >>>> So, i got this tip from an acquaintance of mine and thought i would share. >>>> Since this is a free and apparently unprotected ibook (this does not >>>> neccessarily go hand in hand, some paid ibooks are protected others are >>>> not). >>>> It is actually possi ble to read the ibook on the mac with safari. Epub >>>> apparently is just a container, at least the text of the ibook is some >>>> kind of html. >>>> to do this: >>>> - imho its easiest to download the book on ios, make sure to open it as >>>> well on that device. >>>> - then open ibooks on the mac, it will ask you for your apple id so it can >>>> sync with icloud >>>> - open the book on the mac once as well. >>>> - then go to the finder and use the go to folder commando (cmd+shift+g) >>>> and paste the following path >>>> ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books >>>> this is the folder where apple stores the ibooks that you have downloaded >>>> onto your mac. >>>> The books are given a random number, in my case since the book was the >>>> last one i added it was easy to find just by looking at the date modified >>>> column. >>>> - go to that folder and then to the underlying ops folder. Here you will >>>> find the chapter files. >>>> Its perhaps a good idea to copy the whole book to a different folder so >>>> that it will be easier to find in future. >>>> hth >>>> Greetings, Anouk, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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