Just one thing, thanks to the authors guild, many books have the tts turned
off.
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From: Chris Tekell
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:42 PM
To: Carol and Roger ; Mike Rogers ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Kindle Question
Untrue. The Kindle 3 is accessible, but there are issues. First, sighted
help is required to turn on the function that reads the menus and controls.
Second, pretty much only reading books is accessible, the other features
including access to the Kindle store are not accessible. Finally, the book
reading feature is separate from the control reading feature and it must be
turned on each and every time you access media. If you leave a book to read
a newspaper or magazine, you must turn the reader on to read the new media
and then must turn it on again when you return to the book. Oh, also you
have to check each item you are interested in to be certain that it will
work with the speech function. Amazon bowed to the Author's Guild and
publishers' complaints and allowed them to opt out of the reader function on
a per title basis. For the accessible PC reader, all titles will work with
text to speech regardless of their status with the Kindle itself.Both of
these options are better than the Kindle iPhone app which is completely
blocked from the VoiceOver function, however Amazon may have just gotten
around this by releasing an HTML5 app for Chrome and Safari that will work
on desktops as well as all portable devices.
Personally, I am hoping that Amazon will improve the accessibility on the
next Kindle. Even though there is now a way to read the books on the PC and
on my iPhone, the battery life of an eInk display can't be beat and if the
thing was less clunky in the accessibility area it would be well worth
having in addition to other devices.
Regards,
Chris
From: Carol and Roger
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:02 AM
To: Mike Rogers ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Kindle Question
Hi, The kindle for PC with accessibility is free. You will use it on your
computer. I do not think therre are any physical Kindles which are
accessible.
On 8/11/2011 10:59 AM, Mike Rogers wrote:
I'
'm reading that folks use Kindle, to read their books. Tow questions, as my
sighted wife just got a Kindle. What's the advantage of a Kindle over the
digital talking book machine, from the state library? Also where do you get
a Kindle for the blind and what do they cost?
Mike
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