Hi, I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention on this list of Amazon's announcement that they will update the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX to include an audible menu that will use text-to-speech and add new large fonts to better support vision-impaired users, and will implement these changes in 2010. This has been covered in a few places since yesterday.
Here's the press release at Amazon: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1362556&highlight= A few links to articles reporting on this: • Yahoo (basically the news release) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Blind-and-VisionImpaired-bw-2422175966.html?x=0&.v=1 • Techflash (has some commentary from the NFB, student reaction, and other description) http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/12/kindle_to_feature_new_tools_for_blind_visually_impaired.html and here's some of the older (November 2009) criticism of the Kindle's text-to-speech access from geek.com: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/kindle-dx-text-to-speech-access-criticized-20091111/ Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
