Great! If there were any information I'd have requested from Santa for Christmas, that's it!
Thanks for a Merry Christmas whether I buy the Nook or not.----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "bookshare volunteer list" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:15 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] o/t accessibility of kindle pc & bn e-reader apps
Hi, every1: Just a quick note to let yall know that while my vertigo is flarin' cuz of the weather, I had a play w/both Amazon's kindle for PC & Barnes & Noble's e-reader. Kindle for pc is useless as toabh for us blindies & isn't worth installing--even the registration screen is a bitmap which is totally unreadable by jaws, & the books aren't any better. Barnes & Noble's e-reader, on the other hand, is quite accessible. Requires a lot of screenreader cursoring & I'm developing some jaws scripts now to make that easier to deal with. I'll probly develop somethin for Window-Eyes, too, though I hate doing it cuz I've only got a frickin demo & it tends to time out at the worst possible moments lol. Anyway, just thought I'd let every1 know that BN's digital content is accessible, & suggest politely that where we can use bn, I think we should, in order to support their access initiatives. They're coming out w/a reading device similar to the kindle soon, called a bnook. I don't know how accessible that will be, (we can only hope but not hold our breath or we'll likely end up turning very blue lol.). Anyway, retreating back into the woodwork now till I'm either needed again or come across somethin interesting I feel might be worth sharing. Blessings for your day. -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride www.abletec.serverheaven.net Please join me Saturday, 11/7, on my walk against breast cancer by making a donation at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/larkspur> -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride www.abletec.serverheaven.net Please join me Saturday, 11/7, on my walk against breast cancer by making a donation at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/larkspur> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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