How do I know if I have the latest update?----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Otten
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 2:58 PM
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: New Update to VoiceView on the Fire Tablet
Hi David,
One of the other changes is that they now have a means of being able to set a
mark for starting a selection preparatory to copying text. That gesture is a
three finger double tap and hold. Therefore, the gesture which disables speech
within voice view, , a three finger double tap, is now disabled by default. So
for instance, if you are a braille display user, you will want to go into
settings and turn it back on.
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On Mar 8, 2019, at 10:39 PM, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On my sixth generation Fire Tablet HD 8 I recently received an update to
VoiceView. This update was only for the screen reader and not for the Fire
operating system itself. This was a bit of a surprise as I expected VoiceView
updates to be packaged along with updates to Fire OS. However, Talkback, the
Android screen reader from Google, is not locked into the version of Android
you are using so I really should not have been surprised that VoiceView was
updated separately from the OS. This is, of course, different from the way
Apple handles accessibility updates for their products, such as iPhone, Mac,
etc., where the screen reader is directly tied to the operating system.
Anyway, I quickly read the release notes and remembered the following
changes.
First, you can now tripple-click the power button to turn VoiceView on or
off. I can't imagine where they got that idea from. ☺ It always allows you to
tripple-click the power button to turn VoiceView off. If you want that same
command to be available to turn VoiceView on you must enable it in the
VoiceView settings, which I gladly did. It's very nice to have a quick way to
toggle it on and off, particularly as there was formerly no quick way to
disable it.
Granularity can now be set to read by sentences, a feature I don't even
think is on iOS rotor (please correct me if that's not true.)
Also, VoiceView settings are now grouped into categories for Speech and
Braille.
The Ivona Sally text to speech voice had an update. I downloaded it but I
could not notice any real difference in the new version.
There is also a new gesture available while reading Kindle books but I now
can't recall what it was. However, the VoiceView tutorial has been updated with
these changes.
I am having difficulty finding any documentation on this new version of
VoiceView online but I'm sure it will be a matter of time until Amazon
publishes a list of changes.
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
