Hi, Gary,
Does this mean you don't need a kindle to read the books? I'd
be more than ready to buy a kindle if I could read everything on
it, but the computer will also do nicely, I guess!
Thanks.
Alice
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:16 PM
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
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