---- Original Message ------
From: Pratik Patel <[email protected]
Subject: [VICUG-L] FW: Introducing Free Kindle Software with
Accessibility Features
Date sent: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:52:09 -0500
Colleagues,
This is an extremely important first step toward full
accessibility to many books. While I'd like to see Amazon
provide ubiquitous access by making their mobile devices and
mobile software (along with the Mac software) accessible, it gets
blind or visually impaired people the beginning of the dream of
having the same access to electronic books as their sighted
peers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Amazon.com [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Introducing Free Kindle Software with Accessibility
Features
Dear [email protected] subscriber,
Amazon.com is releasing a new version of Kindle for PC that adds
accessibility features designed for blind and low-vision
customers.
Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin is a free, downloadable
application for your Windows PC. It provides the following
accessibility features: text-to-speech reading with adjustable
voice settings, voice-guided menu navigation, large font sizes,
high contrast reading mode, keyboard navigation, and accessible
shortcuts.
With this software, for the first time ever, the entire
collection of English language books in the Kindle Store can be
read aloud. With over 750,000 English language titles, Amazon
offers the largest selection of accessible ebooks. In order to
use the text-to-speech feature, an external screen reader program
must be installed and running on the Windows PC.
The free download is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle/accessibility
We welcome your feedback at:
[email protected]
Sincerely,
The Kindle Team
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