The NFB had to push the release of their e-book reader to January sometime. I personally would prefer Amazon to make their apps accessible. Why can't they just make it so that it works with the TTS already built in to the iphone and the mac? Then voiceover can just read the books to us and it wouldn't matter if a publisher turned off the TTS or not. Well, I do not understand the laws so maybe this is illegal. However, I've heard that the NFB e-book reader will work with voiceover so we can just use voiceover to read the books. This is what I've heard so I do not know how true this is. I believe the NFB e-book reader will have their own TTS built in as well but again, I'm not positive on this.
Christina On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > 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 > . > > -- 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.
