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Richard, USA “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. My web site: <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Devin Prater Sent: Monday, September 22, 2025 11:55 AM To: 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books Try force closing Kindle and opening it back up. If that doesn't work I'll have to try it and see if I can get it to work. On 9/22/2025 1:33 PM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote: I did that. I tried Eva, and Tom, but Kindle still uses Samantha. Any more detailed instructions? Richard, USA “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. My web site: <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Devin Prater Sent: Monday, September 22, 2025 11:29 AM To: 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books Under voices heading, hit voices. On 9/22/2025 10:48 AM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote: I do not know if it is limited to the US. I also cannot get the Kindle app to use anything but Samantha. The portion of the settings app in iOS26 that was Speech Content has been renamed to Read and Speak. Under there everything has new names, so I am not clear what needs to be enabled to get Kindle to use something else for this feature. Richard, USA “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. My web site: <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ketan Kothari Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2025 11:55 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books Hi, Where is the feature available? Is it restricted to USA alone>? How do I find it on my Iphone if it is available everywhere? Thank you. Best, Ketan Kothari On Mon, 22 Sept 2025 at 11:51, VIPhone <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Actually, as of about a month ago, changing voices in the Kindle Assistive Reader works perfectly. For example, when I enable the reader, the Alex voice TTS is used. The only TTS voices that do not appear to work are the Siri voices. To switch the voice in the Kindle reader, simply select the desired TTS in the spken contents area of the accessability settings of the OS. Mark On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 3:42:08 PM UTC-7 Richard Turner wrote: It seems to be there, but as for making use of it, not so sure. If I was actually using it, it is stuck on the Samantha voice, which I dislike. It is kind of buried. Richard, USA “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. My web site: <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Barbara Stahl Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2025 9:23 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books Is the accessible reader function available in the apple kindle ap, or just on kindle devices? On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Good e-Reader - Friday, September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books <https://media.goodereader.com/blog/uploads/images/2025/09/19014955/Screenshot-2025-09-18-at-22-49-38-Amazoncom-We-Love-You-Bunny-A-Novel-eBook-Awad-Mona-Kindle-Store.png> Amazon has been pushing accessibility hard lately, making Kindle books and Kindle e-readers better suited for people with visual disabilities. They have added a new tab to book description pages, called Accessibility. It has new Accessibility metadata <https://benetech.org/education-access-and-compliance/global-certified-accessible/> , including Visual Adjustments, Non-Visual Reading, Conformance, and Navigation. Publishers have been prioritizing the submission of e-books to Amazon that include accessibility features. According to Publishers Weekly <https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/98618-amazon-adds-benetech-accessible-metadata-to-ebooks-highlighting-simon-schuster-s-leadership.html> , “The move comes as publishers face increasing legal pressure to make digital content accessible, positioning accessible publishing as both a competitive advantage and a necessity as new laws such as the European Accessibility Act and expanded digital accessibility requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act drive industry momentum toward universal accessibility.” The e-books that publishers submit have to be compliant with Benetech’s Global Certified Accessible (GCA) standards <https://benetech.org/education-access-and-compliance/global-certified-accessible/> . This is a 3rd non-profit that works with publishers worldwide to integrate accessibility specifications into production workflows and certifies ongoing compliance. Amazon’s decision to display this metadata ensures that readers with vision impairments or dyslexia can easily find titles that meet their needs. Some major publishers submit books that are fully accessible, but this does not necessarily mean they are in an accessible format. The only publisher that is putting a priority on it is Simon & Schuster. “The publisher, which releases some 800 titles per year, is moving from certifying about 60% of its catalogue annually in 2022-2024 to 100% in 2025.” There have been various Kindle software enhancements that will appeal to readers with disabilities. Kindle Assistive Reader is one of them and is fully available in the update that was released a couple of days ago. It will essentially convert any Kindle book into an audiobook, utilizing an advanced text-to-speech system that sounds natural. However, you do need Bluetooth headphones, earbuds, or an external speaker. There is a new system-wide text enlarger that will make all menus and UI elements larger, giving users more control over the text size they want on the entire Kindle. <https://media.goodereader.com/blog/uploads/images/2025/09/19015643/Screenshot-2025-09-18-at-22-52-34-We-Love-You-Bunny-eBook-by-Mona-Awad-EPUB-Rakuten-Kobo-Canada.png> Amazon might be the only company to take accessibility this seriously, but Kobo does too. They also have smaller metadata information that has been available for some time, such as a table of contents and alt text for images. However, most of the features have been there for over s dozen years. There have been no software updates to add more features. <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone/attach/20830582a697c/image001.jpg?part=0.1> Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks, e-books and e-readers for the past eighteen years. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-focusing-on-accessibility-for-kindle-books David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting WWW.ScreenReaderTraining.com <http://www.screenreadertraining.com/> Am Yisrael Chai The Nation of Israel Lives! JAWS Certified, 2022 <https://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/Certification/> NVDA Certified Expert <https://certification.nvaccess.org/> Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive news, events and information regarding the blindness assistive technology field. Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.DavidGoldfield.com <http://www.davidgoldfield.com/> Richard, USA “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. 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