Re: looking for collaboraters on an open-source epub3 reader/player

Maybe we need to bring this use case up with the HTML people in W3C.
It's too late for HTML 5.1, but 5.2 is still possible.

I'm cc'ing W3C APA and dpub-aria lists for thoughts.

Janina

Janina

LARRY SKUTCHAN writes:
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> It does track properly in a single session, but if you close a title while in the middle of a chapter, then open it next week, your caret is at the top of that chapter, not where you left it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Kerscher [mailto:kerscher@montana.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 9:27 AM
> To: Technical Developments Discussion List <technical-developments@mail.daisy.org>
> Subject: RE: looking for collaboraters on an open-source epub3 reader/player
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> Try the VitalSource implementation. You can side load titles by copy and pasting the epub into the name of the folder whithin VitalSource, not in the folder, but in the name of the folder in the files menu.
> 
> They have set a hot key to go to next chapter, but I think the cursor is tracking properly, at least on my Windows machine.
> 
> Check out other options for reading systems at epubtest.org
> 
> Best
> George
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Skutchan [mailto:lskutchan@aph.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:07 AM
> To: Technical Developments Discussion List
> Subject: RE: looking for collaboraters on an open-source epub3 reader/player
> 
> American Printing House for the Blind is also seriously evaluating the use of Readium as, primarily, a refreshable braille and tactile graphic renderer, but are also interested in the speech aspects through interaction with screen readers. One thing not evident, however, is the path toward a solution that lets the browser, screen reader, and client communicate especially with respect to the exact position of the reading cursor.
> >From what it looks like now, the best one can do is with an implementation like Bookshare uses where the user can synchronize at page or chapter levels, but it requires user interaction every time to turn the page or go to the next chapter, and when he returns to a session, the reading cursor can only return to the top of that page or section.
> Does anyone have any great ideas on how to best address this situation? It seems necessary for the screen reader to let the browser know where its current location is, so the browser can then let the client know, so it can then preserve the position between reading sessions.
> This is a bigger issue than a Readium limitation. It appears to be a situation where communication between all three components is required.
> The obvious easiest solution seems to be to make the client's view as small as the desired granularity, but this has awful implications for sighted readers and also requires some currently nonexistent information exchange between the client and the screen reader.
> It is an interesting problem.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willem van der Walt [mailto:wvdwalt@csir.co.za]
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:22 AM
> To: Technical Developments Discussion List <technical-developments@mail.daisy.org>
> Subject: RE: looking for collaboraters on an open-source epub3 reader/player
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> Good day George,
> yes, we use the Readium software to showcase our epub3 work.
> Since I got your email, I did have a look at the project page again and saw that there is now a browser-independent version too.
> We will keep Readium in mind when we look at the various options.
> Kind regards, Willem
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 May 2016, George Kerscher wrote:
> 
> > Dear Willem
> >
> > I just want to make sure you know about the readium.org work. This 
> > open source project is where many of us are focused. If you could 
> > contribute resources to this project (there are several different 
> > ways), I think you would get the most bang for your dollars.
> >
> > Best
> > George
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Willem van der Walt [mailto:wvdwalt@csir.co.za]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:12 AM
> > To: Technical Developments Discussion List
> > Subject: looking for collaboraters on an open-source epub3 
> > reader/player
> >
> > Good day,
> > As tools for the production of epub3 publications using media overlays 
> > are becoming more available, one of the remaining barriers to moving 
> > to epub3 as a standard for producing accessible publications, is the 
> > lack of
> readers
> > of
> > epub3 which properly support MO.
> >
> > As part of a project sponsored by the South African Department of Arts 
> > and Culture, we might have limited funding available to contribute to 
> > the development of such a player.
> >
> > I would like to know if any of the organizations on this list, is 
> > working on such a player, or if any one would be interested in 
> > collaborating with us on such a project.
> >
> > We have some ideas on the way forward, but for now I just want to 
> > inquire if there is any interest.
> > Ideally, you would just point me to the ultimate player that already 
> > exists, of which I do not know.
> > Hope to hear from some of you soon.
> > Kind regards,
> > Willem
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