[senit] Switch accessible electronic books

I'd like to start a debate about how switch users, and other users of

Paul Nisbet wrote:
> I'd like to start a debate about how switch users, and other users of
> assistive technologies (e.g. communication aids, IntelliKeys, eye-gaze
> systems, speech recognition, head-operated mice) can access electronic
> books.
>
>  
Yes an interesting one.
I think we could do with a general reader that was easy to use and alter
-so I would have thought that an open format would be better than one 
that is owned commercially and thus liable to change every few years and 
could possibly have restrictions on the distribution.
PDF is more or less an open format but it is not switch accessible.
You could cobble together text reader with a pdf- I don't know if you 
could make it all switch accessible using a switch interface, certainly 
I think you could do page turning.

You can obviously make accessible books in Powerpoint, Clicker 5, 
Hyperstudio, SwitchItmaker, Opus etc etc
Powerpoint limited to a single access point if using switches, and all 
of them need quite alot of work to create a complete book.

Perhaps we should start from the other end and say what it is we need in 
a generic talking book reader.

Richard Walter