Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-10 Thread Phil Halton
t; To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader > > I have an iPhone and I do use Prime Video on that. However, I was hoping that > with my extremely limited site that remains to me I might be able to actually >

RE: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-09 Thread Simon A Fogarty
@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2019 3:12 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader I have an iPhone and I do use Prime Video on that. However, I was hoping that with my extremely limited site

Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
Phil, There is a company specializing is insuring Amazon fire tablets are accessible, configuring to our specifications, and pricing them even better than Amazon. www.talkingmp3players.com I hope I have that correct. If not, write me off list and I will connect you to the owner. I cannot

Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-09 Thread Phil Halton
I have an iPhone and I do use Prime Video on that. However, I was hoping that with my extremely limited site that remains to me I might be able to actually see something if I was viewing a larger screen like on an iPad or an Amazon fire tablet. Problem is I didn’t feel like spending several

RE: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-08 Thread Simon A Fogarty
So if you have an iPad or iphone why not just down load the prime video app and watch prime through that, Or the kindle book app, Sounds cheaper to me than a new device which may not be accessible. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent:

Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-07 Thread David Chittenden
The Amazon Kindle Tablets are very restricted Android tablets. They are low cost. Unfortunately, the screen response, at least on mine, which is four years old, is quite laggy. I usually need to tap with extra-firm pressure in order to get the touch screen to react. Also, Voice View is

Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-07 Thread Cameron Strife
I owned one and it was a headache. This was two years ago so perhaps accessibility has improved a bit since then but still... One thing I will say though is that it was really handy having Alexa right there! I have an echo gen 2 in my kitchen now though and that works out fine as far as needing

Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-07 Thread Mary Otten
I have had a couple of those tablets, and I have sworn off of them. The speakers are lousy. The screen lags something crazy. They have very little storage space, which means you need to buy cards, and then if you’re unlucky like I was, the card reader will die, and you need to buy a new device.

Re: Amazon fire tablets Accessibility with Voice view screen reader

2019-12-07 Thread Jessica Moss
>From the small amount of experience I’ve had with one, they’re pretty decent, >but at times can be very laggy. Also, something interesting I’ve run into >with their version of the amazon app, as opposed to the amazon app on my >iPhone, voice view reads all buttons as “button” instead of them