[vi-kindle] Re: Fwd: Re: More accessibility in Newly announced KindleFire Tablets
- From: jessica brown <justforlistmessages531@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:15:52 -0800
I forgot they had been discontinued. Sorry about that.
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From: "Russ Kiehne" <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx
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Date sent: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:51:50 -0700
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Fwd: Re: More accessibility in Newly
announced KindleFire Tablets
If you can find one. They have been discontinued.
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From: jessica brown
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Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Fwd: Re: More accessibility in Newly
announced
KindleFire Tablets
Yes. The kindle keyboard.
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Subject: Fwd: [vi-kindle] Re: More accessibility in Newly
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*From:* Anjelina Cruz <anjelinac26@xxxxxxxxx
*Date:* September 25, 2013, 10:43:04 AM PDT
*To:* vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* *[vi-kindle] Re: More accessibility in Newly announced
Kindle
Fire Tablets*
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Are there Kindle devices on the market that are partially
accessible?
On 9/25/13, kb7uengene <kb7uengene@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think if you are looking at tablets, it'll be interesting to
see how
they've approached it in comparison to the iPad. But in terms of
e-readers,
if you look at just the Kindle 3/keyboard, then yes they have
definitely
outpace themselves. But when you put it up against the Kindle
for iOS app
and Kindle for PC app, I think Amazon deserves a lot of credit
and a lot of
praise for what they've done in terms of accessibility so far.
Also, keep
in mind that dedicated ereaders with E-Ink displays and tablets
are very
different animals and have very little in common. Based on the
pictures
I've seen, it is clear that the Kindle HDX line of tablets is
still heavily
skinned over the Android OS, so I would still really lean towards
the iPad
for a tablet. Because Amazon has iOS apps for the Kindle,
instant video,
and music, there's far less of a reason today to go with a Kindle
tablet
then there was when the first generation Kindle tablet came out.
Sure
you're getting a lot more bang for your buck in terms of hardware
for less
money, but if it's not accessible it's not accessible. I
seriously hope
they are, because that just means more choices for us in the long
run. -
Gene
On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:06 PM, David Goldfield
<disciple1211@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
If I am correctly interpreting what I read in Amazon's latest
press release,
the accessibility features in the new Kindle Fire tablets may
well go above
and beyond what they've done so far. In the past, accessibility
in the
Kindle devices was very limited. You could move through your home
screen,
menus and you could read and pause a book, all using
text-to-speech. That's
where the accessibility ended. There was no way to access apps,
such as
Mail. The following is taken from Amazon's press release covering
the latest
operating system in the new fire.
뷒ccessibility Tools including Screen Reader, Explore by Touch
and Screen
Magnifier enable access to the vast majority of Fire OS features.
Text-to-Speech for book reading features natural-sounding IVONA
voices for
the following languages: US, British and Australian English,
German, French,
Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and French Canadian. Fire
OS 3.0
supports standard Android Text-to-Speech APIs, so developers can
take
advantage of IVONA voices for third-party apps.
My comments: while amazon is not making a written commitment to
having
accessibility covering all features of the new Fire, this clearly
seems to
go beyond what they've done so far. I use the Kendra voice from
Ivona all of
the time with DAISY audio books that I download from bookshare.
--
Anjelina
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