I haven't got that set up yet, but that seems like the way to go. Honestly, my dream machine would be a Mac running Windows in a virtual machine with Kurzweil and NVDA. I use Voice Dream Reader to convert a lot of PDF's because sometimes it's quicker than Kurzweil, and then use Voice Dream Writer to split them into sections.ħ. It's a markdown editor with an excellent outline view! If you import your docs to the app, you can navigate by heading, paragraph, sentence, or line. I know you want something for Mac/PC, but Voice Dream Writer for IOS might do the trick. I was able to navigate by heading using NVDA on my PC, but it doesn't seem to work with Voiceover in the apps.Ħ. I haven't tried the Windows app yet, but you can always go to the website from your Windows PC. The Mac and IOS apps are completely accessible, along with the website. Simplenote is a very basic markdown editor that syncs between Mac, IOS, Android, PC, and. Daisy on the Mac technically works but will probably leave you disappointed if you're used to Windows.ĥ. I tried that and found it to be accessible on Mac but not Windows, and very busy and chaotic to navigate.Ĥ. The Mac and IOS versions are fine though, and I've come to love them for my writing purposes.ģ. You are correct that the PC version is completely inaccessible, and the developer seemed unwilling to make it accessible do to the development platform that was used to create it. Scrivener is excellent if you are writing novels like me, but not very intuitive as far as organizing existing files. Kurzweil seems to be the best out there for bookmarks and annotations.Ģ. I've been trying to solve this problem myself, and here's what I know:ġ. Unfortunately, I don't think you're missing anything. MarkDown would work great, but I ran into problems finding MarkDown software that could jump by heading or offer a document map of headings/subheadings, plus I haven't found any accessible markdown editors for Windows. I've been waiting for Word for Mac to work the bugs out now for quite a while, but I'm really interested in finding an alternative. Even txt files of 300 pages or so freeze my MBA for 28 seconds when moving to a new page. Also seems not to strictly work, since even short PDF articles that have gone through K1000 mess up royally, even after resesaving as rtf. * chop each word doc into chapters and save them each as separate Word files in a book folder. I suppose I could generate tables of contents for all files, but then I'd have to continually return to the top of the document to navigate. * Pages is out because they took away Outline view, so there's no document map for quickly navigating. ReadHear appears not to have been updated in 3-4 years: their Web page said "EPUB support coming soon" when the app directory entry was written, and it still says that now! Forum discussions on here indicate that there's a real paucity of software for daisy-reading, and I've certainly found that to be the case. That's lots of work, though, and I lose the ability to read my books on PC because OneNote isn't accessible on PC still and the file format is proprietary. * I could chop them up into sections/pages (chapters/subchapters) into Microsoft OneNote, which at first glance seems rather accessible now. I'm new to the software, and it seems rather "busy" for this purpose, though it makes loads of sense for template-based writing.Īlso, the PC version seems totally inaccessible, although I haven't gotten past the installer. * I have Scriviner and could import them, using the cork board for annotations. ![]() ![]() I would also hope to keep it transportable between Mac and PC if possible. My requirements are to be able to quickly navigate to chapter and section by heading level, and to add annotations. So, I'm hunting for alternatives that I can convert my library into, one file at a time as I need them (most of the files, I won't ever need again). Many sighted Mac users are having some of the same problems with book-length documents in Word for Mac 2016. This has been fine for 25 years or so on the PC, but I'm really having difficulty switching to the Mac because Word for Mac 2016 is currently choking on these documents, either because of the sheer length of some of them or else something in how Kurzweil 1000 saved metadata or images that I can't get rid of. Every book or PDF article I've ever scanned/OCRed is in a library of several thousand Word docs, all structured with headings for chapters and sections.
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