Accessible Kindle for PC App Released
- From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:16:09 -0600
If you've been waiting for an accessible Kindle app for the PC, you're in luck!
Go to
http://blindbargains.com
and read the entry under Latest Bargains. The link will take you to the Amazon
page that describes the app and how to download and use it. Read through all
of the Help links, and you will know all that I do about it.
The app download is 231 MB, so if you have a dialup connection, forget it! It
has been tested with JAWS and NVDA. A screen reader must be detected by the
app in order to enable text-to-speech on all Kindle books. As you may know,
authors have disabled text-to-speech on the Kindle itself for many of their
titles. At least, we will be able to read them on the computer with this app.
You can read the books a page at a time or continuously with a male or female
voice. Navigation only goes down to the sentence level, so you can't read word
by word or have words spelled. I hope this will change in a later version.
I would suggest that if you want to try the program that you get one of the
free books available from the Kindle Store. I visited the Free Collections
link and chose a book from the Limited Promotions section. There were 143
selections to choose from. I just made sure that I looked for the ones that
were $0.00.
These are my early impressions of the program, and at least I think they have
made a good start toward accessibility. We will need to give them feedback to
insure that improvements will be made.
Gary King
mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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