Jean,
When using Kindle for PC with Accessible Plug-in, JAWS and other screen readers 
read the menus and buttons, and the included male and female text-to-speech 
voices speak the text of the books. JAWS can't read any text in books directly, 
but a page can be read after a fashion with Convenient OCR.  The problem is 
that most books are printed in columns, so trying to make sense of a page this 
way is difficult. 

If you are reading books such as novels which are meant to be read from start 
to finish, the program is adequate, but if you are trying to read books that 
require a lot of navigation to find a particular portion of the text, your 
experience will not be good.  I wouldn't try it with books of a technical 
nature.

For those who have an iPhone or iPad, the Kindle app works much better.

Gary King
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jean Menzies 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 1:13 PM
  Subject: Kindle books


  How accessible are Kindle books? I haven’t followed the Kindle issue over the 
years. I see there is a Kindle app for PC with an accessible plug-in. It says 
it works with Jaws. Can anyone vouch for that? 

  Thanks. 

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