[access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
- From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:57:56 +0000
Thanks Steve,
How good is the Kindle Fire HD touch screen? Does it allow you to tap to search
and doub le tap to activate, (like Apple), or does it hike you off into
whatever you touch, so that you can't find your way around it first before
activating (like Blackberry)?
Best,
Clive
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Steve Nutt
Sent: 05 January 2015 14:39
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
Hi Clive,
Speech Enabled is a bit of a misnoma now. Unless you have one of the older
Kindles, the Kindle Fire HD for example, will let you hear books whether they
are speech enabled or not. The Kindle app for iPhone and Android will also do
this. So speech enabled is not really an issue any more. I personally with my
Android app, can read any Kindle book on the store.
All the best
Steve
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Subject: [access-uk] RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
Hello all,
Whatever happened to the RNIB's "Right To Read campaign?
If you click on the
Right to Read<http://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning>.
Link on their site, it promises you that you'll go to the campaign, but instead
you go to a generic campaigns page...which is in itself not a great example of
web usability.
Here's one to give you food for thought:
I went to the Amazon site to find out whether David Blunkett's book was
available on Kindle. It is not, but there was a button you could press to "tell
the publishers you'd like to read it on Kindle". Click this, and Amazon will
tell them you want it on Kindle. However, there's no way to get them to "Tell
the publishers you would like to listen to a speech enabled version on Kindle".
However, if the publishers decide they don't want you to hear it on Kindle,
they can forbid Amazon from speech enabling that version. My "Y O Y O Y" rant
is:
"Why is it not as easy for a blind person to request a speech enabled kindle
version as it is for publishers to insist that the Kindle edition be silent?
Any thoughts on the fate of Right To Read or the Kindle anomaly?
Best,
Clive
Clive Lever
Diversity and Equality Officer
Kent County Council
Office: 03000 416388
Email: clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Kent County Council
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Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent.
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