Hello, I am looking for all your opinions, I may primarily do my book reading on my iPad, but aside from text to speech and zoom, in your opinions what are the best book readers and general visually impaired person softwares for mac, i am getting a macbook tomorrow and would like some advice this being my first time. Do they have read2go or voice dream on mac?
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The Mac already has VoiceOver
The Mac already has VoiceOver which is a built in screen reader. When you press any key on the keyboard VoiceOver will say the name of that key. VoiceOver will also tell you what's happening on your Mac. I think the Mac comes with OSX El Capitain.
Bookshare
True, but I am asking about reading bookshare books.
reading BookShare books on a Mac
You can go to the BookShare website and enable the web reader to read BookShare books on the mac. If you don't wish to remain in the browser window to read, you can copy and paste your book into Text Edit or some other wordprocessor.
Another way to read Bookstore books
you can download the daisy format from Bookshare (with or without images) and after unzipping the files (automatically done on the Mac), open the .xml file in Safari. You can then read it like you would any web content. I haven't tried this on other browsers.
Hope this helps,
mani