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Bookworm is an accessible, open source, Ebook reader. (mush42.github.io)
submitted by rkingett
Broken_seeker 1 points 3y ago
This is a neat program. I like being able to annotate something I'm reading, something that QRead can't do for example.
I only wish it had the ability to just keep reading with my screen reader rather than having to turn pages. Going to keep it for taking notes in things I read and study. Glad this was posted.
I only wish it had the ability to just keep reading with my screen reader rather than having to turn pages. Going to keep it for taking notes in things I read and study. Glad this was posted.
rkingett [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Good thing is that it's open source, so tell blind programmers to contribute to it. :)
devinprater 1 points 3y ago
All 3 computer operating systems should have more EPUB readers. And no, the ones that just speak the books using TTS don't count, like eBook speaker on Linux. I want to read the book as much as I can with a screen reader, thank you.
Also, Microsoft, Apple, ... Linux folks don't care so might as well not even include them... Should focus more on implementing rich text support in their accessibility API's, so that screen readers can actually do things with bold, italics, underline formatting, like display them in braille, or speak them with different speech settings or voices to denote their existence. The only two screen readers that can do this easily are Emacspeak and Narrator. JAWS can, but it has to be setup manually because everyone is so different and all that.
Also, Microsoft, Apple, ... Linux folks don't care so might as well not even include them... Should focus more on implementing rich text support in their accessibility API's, so that screen readers can actually do things with bold, italics, underline formatting, like display them in braille, or speak them with different speech settings or voices to denote their existence. The only two screen readers that can do this easily are Emacspeak and Narrator. JAWS can, but it has to be setup manually because everyone is so different and all that.
retrolental_morose 1 points 3y ago
I'm glad to see more ePub readers on Windows. As a format I quite like ePub - like MP3, you can have cover art, metadata etc all in the one file.
xunnix 1 points 3y ago
Do they have books in other languages as well?
retrolental_morose 2 points 3y ago
the app is just a reader, it doesn't come with books to read.
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