Re: Accessible Kindle for PC App Released
- From: "Yadiel Sotomayor" <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:34:06 -0400
?Well, just my luck! Apparently Puerto Rico (even though is considered a state
according to all US federal laws) is not supported. I can't download the
application because, Puerto Rico is not an official "state". That is just great.
From: Gary King
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:50 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Accessible Kindle for PC App Released
Yes, the application is free, and as I mentioned, you can find some free books
in the Kindle Store. You do need an Amazon account to register the app and get
books from the store, even the free ones.
Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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----- Original Message -----
From: Yadiel Sotomayor
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Accessible Kindle for PC App Released
Is the aplication free?
From: Gary King
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:16 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Accessible Kindle for PC App Released
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
Yadiel J. Sotomayor
E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx
Yadiel J. Sotomayor
E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx
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