[access-uk] Re: Kindle
- From: Adrian Higginbotham <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:56:45 +0000
Anyone interested in e-book access wold do better to hold on a little while
longer and see what happens when ray kurzweils blio e-book platform launches
next month. Blio is a "hardware neutral" (whatever taht means) platform for
E-books and includes text to sppech functionality. That isn't of course to say
all hardware capable of playing blio books will be accessible, or equally that
you will be able to use the tts on all content but given kirzweils pedigree in
accessibility it's worth the wait.
Read a little background at
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/blio-ray-kurzweil-book/#Replay
Adrian Higginbotham
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Damon Rose
Sent: 13 January 2010 10:29
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle
What this means, then, is that the ebooks are readable somehow.
Has anyone tried the computer software package yet? You can read the
books on your PC and I believe also on your iPhone.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tristram Llewellyn
Sent: 13 January 2010 10:24
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle
The Kindles (original and DX) do speak and have a TTS built in but that
doesn't mean they are blind accessible. The speech facility which is
not necessarily universally available to all publications in any case is
designed to allow a sighted user to take their eyes off the unit (whilst
driving perhaps) for a while in order at some point to go back to
reading the print.
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of ari
Sent: 13 January 2010 10:20
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle
I think you can actually get them anywhere now, because amazon even
sends them to South Africa as well. I've never seen one, but I don't
think they are accessible because you'd somehow have to be able to go
through menues and things and I don't think there is speech built in.
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