Good morning,

Thanks to those who tested and reported back.

The problem in making an eBook reading application accessible to a 
screen-reader, particularly the content of the book, is that this would 
necessarily make the book content accessible to copying to another file.

I find it frustrating, but can understand not making the book content 
accessible to VoiceOver.  It would, however, be possible for Amazon to use the 
Apple Speech API to make the application self-voicing.

Thanks,
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On 2010-03-18, at 10:05 AM, Esther wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried installing the Kindle for the Mac software, and it isn't accessible.  
> But maybe some low vision users can report back on their experience?  If you 
> do get the app, you'll start up in the (unspoken) text field for your Amazon 
> login name.  Type that in, press tab, then type in your password and press 
> return.  But the only thing that VoiceOver announces if you get this working 
> is "Scroll Area", and no amount of interacting, navigating, etc. gives you 
> anything else spoken.
> 
> There may be a reason that the Amazon website doesn't talk about 
> accessibility.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Esther
> 
> On 18 Mar 2010, at 03:55, mani wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if it is accessible.  It doesn't talk about  accessibility on
>> the Amazon website.
>> 
>> mani
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 18, 7:27 am, william lomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>                this seems interesting
>>> 
>>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/03/18/amazon_kindle_for_mac/
>> 
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