FW: RE: Accessible Kindle Reader
- From: "Rasmussen, Lloyd" <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:48:08 -0500
Correction: I was doing the Amazon link from memory. It should be
www.amazon.com/accessibility/kindle
And if anyone has some idea why Outlook 2007 can't read my previous message
when it comes back from Freelists, (McAffee flags it as corrupt content), I'd
like to know.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress 202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
Library of Congress, NLS.
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Subject: RE: Accessible Kindle Reader
The 232-megabyte Kindle Reader download for PC's is at
www.amazon.com/kindle/accessibility
and you can read some user experience info at
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Access_Technology_Blog.asp .
Go to the January 19 and 21 entries. Newer hardware Kindles are partially
accessible, but their text-to-speech can be limited by the authors. In this PC
version, apparently, the presence of a screen reader is used to tell the
software to allow text-to-speech on all books. Because the menus are written
with QT controls, Window-Eyes cannot read them until you install a QT script,
available from Script Central. I don't have this fully working yet. Your
screen reader speaks the menus and controls, and the supplied, locked-down
Nuance text-to-speech reads the pages.
Read the blog. It will answer a lot of questions. Also, I think this is only
available in the United States so far.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress 202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
Library of Congress, NLS.
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