[access-uk] Re: The Kindle
- From: Christopher Maule-Oatway <c.maule@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:14:02 +0100
Hello Sharon,
Today I had about ten minutes or so with a Kindle and can report the following:
It seems that the menus do not speak, so blind users would have to
learn their way around the menu system.
Although publishers can block the speech reading of books, there are
many who make books available to speech readers. Also, a lot of free
books can be downloaded from the Kindle site which are in the public domain.
The voice that I heard is a clear American male voice. I believe
that there is a female alternative, but apparently no UK English voice.
The joypad, or 5-way control, is a good size, but most of the keys
and buttons are small, though probably no smaller than those on
mobile phones with QWERTY keyboards.
The sighted reader has to press a button to 'Turn the page' of a
book, but reading by speech is continuous.
Books for the Kindle seem to be cheap, quite possibly cheaper than
their equivalent audio book or talking book versions.
I hope that these few comments are useful.
Cheers,
Christopher
At 21:08 27/09/2010 +0100, you wrote:
Oh Many thanks.
I did wonder if this may be the case, typical or what.
Sharon
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Sent: 27 September 2010 20:25
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Kindle
Hi Sharon
From what I've heard you can use the Kindle now, i.e navigating the
menues and things, but the problem is there is still the problem of
the books not being able to be read out because of the publisher
restrictions, so it is not really worth buying.
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