Esther, I can't recall who posted the info, but wasn't there also something the NFB was collaborating with to make books accessible as well? I can't recall if this was for Kendal books, NLS books or what. Does anyone know what the status of this iPhone app is as well?
tnx On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
