You can also slide your finger down the screen to read line by line. Additionally, the iPhone's rotor gesture, used to jump from element to element, allows you to read by characters, words, lines, or headings.
At the bottom of the screen, there is a navigation slider for quickly jumping several pages at once, but you cannot use VoiceOver to access that slider. However, VoiceOver can read the icon at the bottom of the screen, indicating the page number and the total number of pages in the book. A powerful feature of the NOOK app is its Search tool, allowing you to search for any text in a book or magazine. The "Search" Button at the top of the screen brings you to a new screen with a text field and the onscreen keyboard.
You enter your search string, and it delivers results by listing each search result along with its page number and contextual text. When a search result is selected, it goes to the page chosen with the text you searched for highlighted in yellow. However, VoiceOver does not begin reading at the text you have found. You have to navigate through the page to find your search term. The Bookmark tool also works well. While reading, VoiceOver does not indicate that a page has been bookmarked, but you can always learn if there is a bookmark on the page because the "Add Bookmark" button changes to "Remove Bookmark" when a bookmark is in place.
You can also go to the Bookmarks tab on the Table of Contents page to find your bookmarks as discussed earlier in this article. Other functionality is also available when reading a book. If you double tap and hold on a word, a window pops up with four options: "Add Note," "Highlight," "Find," and "Look Up.
Choosing "Highlight" visually highlights the word which you double tapped. However, the highlight is only visual, and VoiceOver does not indicate that the highlight is there. Double tapping "Find" brings up a window with the other occurrences of the highlighted word elsewhere in the book along with contextual text and page number. If you look up a word for the first time, it will take you to a screen where it asks you to download a dictionary in the language of your choice.
However, the process of choosing a dictionary and downloading it is inaccessible and sighted assistance may be needed. For those of you who are students looking for a platform to read your textbooks, the bad news is that the NOOK app does not yet support textbooks at all, regardless of whether you are using VoiceOver or not.
If the NOOK app does eventually support textbooks, it will be interesting to see if all the elements of a complicated textbook will be designed to be compatible with VoiceOver. Although VoiceOver does say the word "image" to indicate that you have encountered a photo or graphical image while reading, none of the books tested include any descriptive tags for their images.
However, although VoiceOver did read the text in the "Page Perfect" books tested, it ignored the images completely. As for footnotes, they cannot be accessed while reading continuously, but they can be accessed by touching them at the bottom of the page. That sounds easy, but it can be difficult to find the footnote icon on the screen.
Finn McCuhil is a freelance writer based in Northern Michigan. He worked as a reporter and columnist in South Florida before becoming fascinated with computers. After studying programming at University of South Florida, he spent more than 20 years heading up IT departments at three tier-one automotive suppliers. He now builds wooden boats in the north woods.
By Finn McCuhil. Annotated text is highlighted by default. Tap the arrows on the navigation wheel to move your cursor to the last word of the selection that you want to highlight.
Tap the "End Selection" option to select the section of text. When you are finished typing the note, tap the "Submit" button to highlight the text and add the note to the highlighted section. Alexander Poirier began writing professionally in He worked as the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Calliope," garnering the magazine two APEX Awards for excellence in publication.
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