Unfortunately jaws doesn't work within the reading window itself in the kindle for pc with accessibility. For reading you are limited to either Tom or Samantha. Interestingly, although I like Samantha fine on the iPhone, I can't tolerate her on the laptop. Go figure.
On 12/18/14, Adrian Spratt via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for posting this useful information, but it leaves a question. If > this Kindle comes with its own two voices, why is JAWS needed? Or put > another way, are you saying we can ignore Amazon's voices and work just with > JAWS? That's what I'd want. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Jarreau > via Jfw > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:11 PM > To: 'Nicole Massey'; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' > Subject: RE: Accessible method of converting Kindle book? > > Yes there is a Kindle version with built in JAWS accessibility. It's > called > Kindle_for_PC with JAWS screenreader plug-in already installed in it. > JAWS works pretty well with it. Call Amazon Cust Support and ask for the > Kindle_for_PC with JAWS screenreader plug-in download. They will assist > with getting everything onto your computer and stay with you until you get > it up and running. > > Be ware the Kindle speech synthesizer has only two voices, Male and > female. > Neither is very good and understanding what is written sometimes takes a > little time. But overall it does work fairly well with JAWS. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Massey > via Jfw > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:49 PM > To: 'Tim Ford'; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' > Subject: RE: Accessible method of converting Kindle book? > > Well, the Kindle player for Windows should let you access it, though I > don't > know how accessible that application is. Anyone got any experience with it? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Ford >> via Jfw >> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:46 PM >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. >> Subject: Accessible method of converting Kindle book? >> >> I want to read a book that so far as I can tell, is available only in >> print or Kindle. It is a 2014 copyright date. Is there any method, >> accessible with JAWS, by which I can purchase the Kindle version, and >> convert it to some file I can access? >> >> Tim Ford >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the- >> jdh.com/attachments/20141218/9504746f/attachment.html> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jfw mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
