Thank you Esther, Anne and Ed for testing the accessibility and containing my excitement.
mani On Mar 18, 10:09 am, "E.J. Zufelt" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, > Everett Zufelthttp://zufelt.ca > > Follow me on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/ezufelt > > View my LinkedIn Profilehttp://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt > > 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/ > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://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.
