Here! I just wish we were a large enough customer population to really be of
a financial consideration. We can of course vote with our dollars, but I
fear that just wont be sufficient.
What about the Freedom to Information Act and 504 Education act? How come we
can't bring these to bare down on such materials?
Vicky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Leavens" <dleav...@puc.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Fw: Introducing Free
KindleSoftwarewithAccessibility Features
Here in lies the problem though.
Not all electronic books are created equal in the site of the cyber gods.
Kindle is a format not necessarily the same as other e-book formats.
It is the old Betamax/VHS wars all over again.
Same with Audio books. I am discovering that not all of our MP3 reading
solutions, Victor Stream, Plextalk, Olympus DM4 so far tested give good
access to all of the audio books they all claim to support.
I expect the same is true with e-book readers.
Is Epub the same format as Kindle? Are all titles available to ePub
equivalent to those available to Kindle?
Will we, the consumer ever actually get what we want or will we continue to
accept and actually purchase what they, the providers insist we should have?
And when will we, the blind, have access to the promise of universal
accessibility that the printing press now four or more centuries ago gave
seeing people who only needed to take the initiative to learn to read.
The universality of binary 1s and 0s is being very deliberately subverted
with the specific intent to limit who has access to written material. This
is not the coincidental barriers of things like Adobe PDF but a deliberate
restriction.
Kindle will certainly hear from me on the subject but it is a message which
requires far broader broadcast.
This goes around and around and around. Tape was thought to kill the music
industry then the cassette then the Internet. Video home equipment was going
to kill the cinema and so Internet sharing and pirating while the movies
make more money than ever before.
----- Original Message -----
From: "CrisMunoz54" <crismuno...@gmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Fw: Introducing Free
KindleSoftwarewithAccessibility Features
There is a Firefox add-on called ePub reader that is
Accessible with Jaws. I use it all the time to read ePub formatted e-books.
I believe too that this works on the mobile browser application as well. So
in theory, you could use it to read books on your mobile device. I haven't
played with the mobile side of things, but you could always give it a shot.
Also, all the Apple I-devices can read e-books with VoiceOver if you want to
go that root.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Eric Damery
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 7:29 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Fw: Introducing Free Kindle
SoftwarewithAccessibility Features
Please, don't assume it works by our design. We have a different view on an
application being accessible. The Kindle PC application (menu and dialogs)
is accessible with the Screen Reader, the books themselves however, are not.
The books (those which the publishers have allowed), are read using Text To
Speech provided by Kindle. In the case of other books, the application is
still accessible (menu and dialogs), but the books are not at all.
The quality of this speech from the Text To Speech they provide and the lack
of control leaves much to be desired. We have expressed to Amazon and
Kindle, that screen reader users would like to use their screen reader for
speech, Braille, and control of navigation. This current solution, while a
commendable effort, is very misleading to say the least. For those of you
try it out, I encourage users to try it and then point out your opinions to
them directly.
Regards,
Eric
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[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:41 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Fw: Introducing Free Kindle Software withAccessibility
Features
Here is a new and presumably Jaws accessible application.
I would prefer a fully portable e-book reading device such as my sighted
colleagues have available to them and will probably so inform them, I don't
much fancy sitting at a computer for my recreational reading but there may
be many on this list who will find this of interest and value.
Dale leavens.
----- Original Message -----
From: Amazon.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:38 AM
Subject: Introducing Free Kindle Software with Accessibility Features
Dear blind-inter...@amazon.com 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 www.amazon.com/kindle/accessibility.
We welcome your feedback at kindle-pc-accessibility-feedb...@amazon.com.
Sincerely,
The Kindle Team
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