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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Monte Single
Jaws is a screenreader like nvda or narrator.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ralf Kefferpuetz
Sent: July-06-19 10:27 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading epub books with NVDA
What is Jaws?
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Francis Leadley
Does JAWS work with EPUB
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Ralf Kefferpuetz
What is Jaws?
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Francis Leadley
Does JAWS work with EPUB
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Francis Leadley
Does JAWS work with EPUB
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Richard Wells
Felix: I use Q-Read to read epub using NVDA. Beyond that, this would
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border on being off-topic for the NVDA main group, so I'll stop right there.
On 7/6/2019 3:51 AM, Felix G. wrote:
Hi folks,
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Re: Follow-up to recent earthquakes in Los Angeles: I'm suspending all my NVDA activities until further notice
Per author's request, as this was meant as a one-way announcement/status message, this topic is now locked.
-- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 The color of truth is grey. ~ André Gide
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Follow-up to recent earthquakes in Los Angeles: I'm suspending all my NVDA activities until further notice
Hi all,
Some of you on Twitter may have seen my tweet from last night – shortly after the larger earthquake hit Los Angeles: due to ongoing coverage of Los Angeles earthquakes (I felt both and am safe), I’m suspending all NVDA related activities until further notice. This includes vast majority of Project Threshold work (except for one or two pull requests), all add-on activities, and high-level translation management.
Thanks. Cheers, Joseph
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Re: virtual machine software
Christian Schoepplein
Hej,
Am 04.07.2019 um 04:31 schrieb Shaun Everiss: What software should I be using.Yes, it is, at least with the latest stable NVDA release. and you also can use the command line to setup and configure virtual machines. I know VMware Player 14, VMware Workstation 14 and VMware Workstation 15 and the latest VirtualBox release. All can be used with NVDA more or less comftable. Personaly I'd use VirtualBox, because its free and open source. I need to run linux inside my VMs and therefore I need to use a braille display, but unfortunatly I was not able to connect my Handytech braille display via a virtual usb port to the Linux VM setup with VirtualBox. It was much easier to setup with VMware, thats why use VMware at the moment, but maybe I'll switch in future. If you do not have that problems with a braille display attaching to the VM, use VirtualBox, othervice use VMware. If you only need to run one VM and have not the need to use more VMs at the same time, you can use the free VMware player. If you need to run more VM at the same time, VMware Workstation is OK, but as said, only if VirtualBox does not work on your system. Regarding HyperV I only can say, that running linux inside is not possible, at least if you need to output sound. Thats why I not longer tested HyperV. If you like to run VMs with Windows inside, it might also be a good choice. Cheers, Schoepp
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Hello, One small correction. Balabolka does support table of contents. It imports it as "named bookmarks", which can be found in the "Bookmarks" menu or by pressing F2.______ На 6.7.2019 г. в 15:43, Aman Singer
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Hi, The only two programs I know of which support most of Epub's features (tables of contents, notes, links, etc.) on Windows are QRead https://q-continuum.net/qread/ and Dolphin's Easy Reader https://yourdolphin.com/products/education/easyreader-for-windows QRead is excellent, fast, stable, can open huge files smoothly on very low-power machines, and is basically an amazing application. The author seems to have more or less abandoned it, but I would respectfully suggest it's worth buying for what it is now. EasyReader is not as fast or stable, its access to libraries is nice, but it seems to be a package sold to sighted people for blind people to use rather than sold to blind people themselves. I found it unusable generally and gave up on it. Balabolca is really nice but doesn't support, so far as I know, tables of contents at all. I would love to be wrong about this, but it basically makes your epub one long text file. Both Firefox and Edge support opening epubs, though I believe Firefox still needs extensions to do this properly. In any case, I have found that browser support for the files is bad. Navigation is difficult, loading is slow, and some files just don't work. Kurzweil 1000, and I think Openbook, also support Epub, but only as part of their other functions, I wouldn't buy them just for that support. I may say that they're both slower and more unwieldy than QRead for just reading, though obviously they do far more than read. I hope that's of use, and would welcome corrections or additions, it's always good to have many ways of doing things. I am tempted to say that the only really smooth way of reading Epub on Windows is QRead. I wish it weren't so, it's never good to be stuck with one application, particularly when that application has been more or less left and requires online activation, but it's where we are as far as I can see. Aman -----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Felix G. Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2019 4:51 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Reading epub books with NVDA Hi folks, I'm looking for a convenient and easy way to read an epub book with NVDA. With epub being just html plus metadata and some additional content wrapped in a zip container, I feel this shouldn't be complicated. Any helpful pointers would make my day. I know about Calibre and converting books to docx/pdf/txt. That's not what I mean. I'd like to be able to open an epub and start reading without jumping through hoops. Thanks in advance, Felix
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Aman Singer
Hi,
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The only two programs I know of which support most of Epub's features (tables of contents, notes, links, etc.) on Windows are QRead https://q-continuum.net/qread/ and Dolphin's Easy Reader https://yourdolphin.com/products/education/easyreader-for-windows QRead is excellent, fast, stable, can open huge files smoothly on very low-power machines, and is basically an amazing application. The author seems to have more or less abandoned it, but I would respectfully suggest it's worth buying for what it is now. EasyReader is not as fast or stable, its access to libraries is nice, but it seems to be a package sold to sighted people for blind people to use rather than sold to blind people themselves. I found it unusable generally and gave up on it. Balabolca is really nice but doesn't support, so far as I know, tables of contents at all. I would love to be wrong about this, but it basically makes your epub one long text file. Both Firefox and Edge support opening epubs, though I believe Firefox still needs extensions to do this properly. In any case, I have found that browser support for the files is bad. Navigation is difficult, loading is slow, and some files just don't work. Kurzweil 1000, and I think Openbook, also support Epub, but only as part of their other functions, I wouldn't buy them just for that support. I may say that they're both slower and more unwieldy than QRead for just reading, though obviously they do far more than read. I hope that's of use, and would welcome corrections or additions, it's always good to have many ways of doing things. I am tempted to say that the only really smooth way of reading Epub on Windows is QRead. I wish it weren't so, it's never good to be stuck with one application, particularly when that application has been more or less left and requires online activation, but it's where we are as far as I can see. Aman
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Felix G. Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2019 4:51 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Reading epub books with NVDA Hi folks, I'm looking for a convenient and easy way to read an epub book with NVDA. With epub being just html plus metadata and some additional content wrapped in a zip container, I feel this shouldn't be complicated. Any helpful pointers would make my day. I know about Calibre and converting books to docx/pdf/txt. That's not what I mean. I'd like to be able to open an epub and start reading without jumping through hoops. Thanks in advance, Felix
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Ralf Kefferpuetz
Wow, that’s an amazing piece of software! I downloaded the portable version and tried it out with some of my ebooks in different formats. The program seems to be fully accessible in most parts and is easy to handle. It continues where you stopped with your ebook, gives text to speech out put through your installed Sapi synthesizers and you even can convert the complete book to MP3 in a few seconds, really impressive. Thanks for this tip!
Cheers, Ralf
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jarek.Krcmar
Sent: Samstag, 6. Juli 2019 11:34 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading epub books with NVDA
Hi, for reading epup format can program Balabolka. It is both instal version and also portable version. You can it download it here:
http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm Jarek Dne 06.07.2019 v 11:06 Andy B. napsal(a):
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
john s
Ollie, from another list, I wanted to tell you how to handle zip files. Just navigate to the file, hit your context key and arrow to extract. Or, maybe it says extract all. By default, the files will be put in a directory under your current directory with the zip file name as the name of the directory. Go into that directory and do what you want with the files.
At 07:02 AM 7/6/2019, Mallard, wrote: Quread is very good, but it isn't free. I had a very negative experience with Balabolka years ago, because the books were not parsed correctly.John
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Jarek.Krcmar
Yes,
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program Balabolka is compatible with Nvda. It reads the format Epup as txt and you open Balabolka, find epup format and you start the reading. You can use also two keys: Key F5 for reading and key F7 for stop the reading. Balabolka can also convert textfiles to mp3. Jarek Dne 06.07.2019 v 11:38 Felix G. napsal(a):
Hi Jarek, --
Jarek
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Re: NVDA Saying "Edit" Before Every Line in Microsoft Word After Google Docs Changes It
Hello, I found out how to remove this "edit" before each line. Select all and go to the applications menu (right-click) then hit enter on "Remove Content Controls, E". This made the document read normally. Are content controlled documents not reading correctly known to the NVDA development team? Thank you,
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:49 AM Brandon Keith Biggs via Groups.Io <brandonkeithbiggs=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Mallard <mallard@...>
Quread is very good, but it isn't free. I had a very negative experience with Balabolka years ago, because the books were not parsed correctly.
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Ciao, Ollie
Il 06/07/2019 12:03, john s ha scritto:
A program called Balabolka will read them and a paid program, QRead, is good too.
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NVDA Saying "Edit" Before Every Line in Microsoft Word After Google Docs Changes It
Hello, Google Docs has now made it so you can edit .docx files in Google Docs without making a new file. I have been loving this feature, but I was just trying to accept suggestions from someone in Google Docs, and now when I open Word, every line says "edit" before it, even if I change the views. Does anyone know how to get word back to normal? Thanks,
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
john s
A program called Balabolka will read them and a paid program, QRead, is
good too.
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At 04:55 AM 7/6/2019, Andy B., wrote: Hi,
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Felix G.
Hi Jarek,
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thanks. Can you please explain how it interacts with NVDA? Best, Felix Am Sa., 6. Juli 2019 um 11:34 Uhr schrieb Jarek.Krcmar <Jarek.Krcmar@...>:
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Re: In-Process 5th July
Quentin Christensen
Whoops! I forgot to mark it as being an In-Process post, thanks for picking that up! I've fixed it now so it should be visible from https://www.nvaccess.org/category/in-process/ as well as the direct link to the post which is: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-5th-july/ Kind regards Quentin.
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:53 AM Marcio via Groups.Io <marcinhorj21=yahoo.com.br@groups.io> wrote:
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Quentin Christensen Training and Support Manager NVDA 2019.2beta1 now available! Training: https://www.nvaccess.org/shop/ Certification: https://certification.nvaccess.org/ User group: https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Jarek.Krcmar
Hi, for reading epup format can program Balabolka. It is both instal version and also portable version. You can it download it here:
http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm Jarek Dne 06.07.2019 v 11:06 Andy B.
napsal(a):
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Re: Reading epub books with NVDA
Felix G.
Hi,
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is this really becoming an rtfm list? *grin* The help page that opens when I press f1 does not mention epub, neither does it link to anything that looks like it might mention epub. Could you please provide a direct link? Have you tried reading a large book with NVDA and Edge? Did you find the experience delightful? If so, how did you navigate? Best, Felix Am Sa., 6. Juli 2019 um 11:06 Uhr schrieb Andy B. <sonfire11@...>:
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