[vi-kindle] Re: Some Thoughts on the New Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin
- From: Felinitye <felinitye@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:25:19 -0400
Well, I tried again. Got it downloaded. Got it registered. Got into library,
but can't get JAWS to read book titles. Searched for, and found the book I
want. Tried to select it by clicking on the cover. Got an error message that
the app encountered a problem and has to close, send error report? Why bother?
In fact, why bother with any of this. I can't make it work, so, that's that.
Glad you all can.
----- Original Message -----
From: Loy
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:13 AM
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Some Thoughts on the New Kindle for PC with
Accessibility Plugin
I am fairly new using Kindle for PC with Accessible plug in. but with Window
Eyes you need to have the QT app installed. The search command works here but
the home and archive command does not work.
but if you click the library button there is a tree view on the left side of
the screen that has downloads, and archived buttons. While in the tree view "D"
will display the downloaded items and "A" will list the archived items. Also,
if you click on an archived item it will download and open the book after a few
seconds.
There is a tree view of document navigation, but I can't figure out how to
navigate the navigation pane. Hope this might help a little.
On 7/27/2012 12:24 AM, Craig Werner wrote:
Greetings, everyone.
It appears that there is no "Archived Items" command anymore. In the "Go
To" menu, the "Home" and "Archived" commands have been replaced by the
"Library" command. This means that there is no longer a way of displaying only
the items on the home page. All of the items are spoken. Actually, my sighted
wife tells me the screen contains downloaded items, all items, and archived
items, but these cannot easily be distinguished from each other. If one
highlights an item and goes to the "File" menu, an already downloaded item will
have the "Download" option disabled. If one goes to an archived item and then
to the "File" menu, the "remove from device" item will be disabled since we're
dealing with an archived item. This scenario will take some getting used to.
Unfortunately, the "Help" file hasn't kept apace with these changes. It still
mentions the "Home" and "Archive" commands of "Control-alt-H" and
"Control-alt-A," which don't seem to work anymore.
I'm not sure, but I think the "search" command of "Control-F" is broken in
the new version. I can't search for text and pull up matches as I could in the
older version.
I hope a user who has been able to download the new version will chime in
with her/his thoughts. Maybe my software is misbehaving, or maybe I have
misunderstood the new look. All in all, though, I'm rather disappointed that
the help file and the actual command structure are out of synch. If the
"Search" command is really broken, this is a major disappointment.
I'm sorry for the rather unclear syntax. It's late, and I'm not
functioning well. I wanted to get some thoughts down in the hopes of possibly
helping others. I hope I haven't confused folks instead.Craig
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