[vi-kindle] Re: New Accessibility Features to Free Kindle ReadingiOS Apps
- From: jessica brown <justforlistmessages531@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 05:17:03 -0800
Not just iPhones. It also works on iPads and iPods.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Alfaro <rick.alfaro@xxxxxxxxx
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Thu, 02 May 2013 08:51:45 -0400
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: New Accessibility Features to Free
Kindle ReadingiOS Apps
I totally agree. What is the email address for their
accessibility
group? It's been a long time coming but I do believe they need
to hear
from us and we should encourage them to move forward with making
their
reading devices equally accessible.
Best,
Rick alfaro
On 5/1/2013 5:18 PM, kb7uengene wrote:
I know we all think this is something that should've happened a
long time ago, I certainly do, but at the same time, I think it
wouldn't hurt for us to send a thank you email to the Kindle
development team. How many people are on this list? I'm
wondering if sending an email having a list of our names at the
bottom, at least those members who consent to It, would help
because they're not seeing it come from just one isolated
individual or a few individuals? If nothing else, It'll keep
them motivated to continue to develop the app with more
accessibility features as time goes on. Is what I'm suggesting
reasonable? - Gene
On May 1, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Sandy Licht <slicht@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks a lot for this, Rus! I just installed the app.
Registration was easy. What is the length for the Kindle app
reference guide?
At 09:53 AM 5/1/2013, you wrote:
New Accessibility Features to Free Kindle Reading iOS Apps
May 1, 2013 6:06:07 AM PDT
Kevin G. - Community Manager
says:
(AMAZON OFFICIAL)
Today we announced new accessibility features for the Kindle
reading app, making
it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to
navigate their Kindle
libraries, read and interact with their books, and more. These
new features are
available starting today on Kindle for iOS, and accessibility
enhancements will be
available on additional platforms in the future.
New accessibility features of the Kindle app enable blind and
visually impaired customers
to:
- Read aloud over 1.5 million titles available in the Kindle
Store using Apple's
VoiceOver technology. Over 300,000 of these books are exclusive
to the Kindle Store.
Over 700,000 books are less than $4.99; over a million are less
than $9.99.
- Seamlessly navigate within their library or within a book,
with consistent title,
menu and button names; navigate to a specific page within a book
and sort books in
the library by author or title.
- Read character-by-character, word-by-word, line-by-line, or
continuously, as well
as move forward or backward in the text.
- Search for a book within their library or search within
their book and navigate
to specific text.
- Add and delete notes, bookmarks, and highlights.
- Use customer-favorite features like X-Ray, End Actions and
sharing on Facebook
and Twitter.
- Look up words in the dictionary and Wikipedia.
- Customize the reading experience including changing the
font, text size, background
color, margin, and brightness.
- Use iOS accessibility features like Zoom, Assistive Touch,
and Stereo to Mono,
as well as peripheral braille displays.
Other new features include:
- Easily rate and review books by accessing `Before you
go...' directly from The
`Go to' menu
- Enhancements to `Before you go...' including the ability to
download a free sample
and email yourself a reminder about recommended books.
- Additional Font Selection for Japan - Hiragino Mincho ProN
(Serif)
These new accessibility features are available first on the
Kindle app for iOS and
accessibility features will be added to other Kindle apps in the
future. Customers
can download the new Kindle for iOS app for free from the App
Store on iPad, iPhone
or iPod touch or at http://www.itunes.com/appstore. Blind and
visually impaired
customers interested in using a Kindle app can also choose
Kindle for PC with Accessibility
Plugin, a free application for Windows PC's.
You can download a quick reference guide here:
Kindle for iOS Accessibility Gestures - Quick Reference Guide
If you need assistance with this update, please drop by the
Kindle Help Forum -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/forums/kindleqna/ref=kindl
e_help_forum_gd
Sandy Licht
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11For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says
the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for
evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
12Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to
Me, and I will hear and heed you.
13Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a
vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your
heart.(A)
14I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release
you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and all
the places to which I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will
bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried
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