You may need sighted help.
The problem for NVDA is that you do not have quite the same degree of
intergration with OCR and a virtual mouse cursur as available in Jaws. In
theory the Golden cursor addon in NVDA is supposed to help with this but I am
not sure how tied it is to the OCR results as it is in Jaws.
Personally I think it is unacceptable sloppiness by Amazon that they
continue to provide basic accessibility hurdles even for logging into their
apps.
They have clearly made progress in some areas, particularly with the Fire, iOS
and Android, but in others the accessibility commitment is half hearted at
best. This happens when they make changes to their web site as well. Clearly in
many areas they do not even test for basic screen reading accessibility before
releasing apps or changing their web site. I know that there is an access
version of the website available in the USA but it is not available here in
the UK and presumably other countries and really they should concentrate on
core accessibility.
As you say Kindle on the Mac is a disaster area for accessibility. There is no
reason why they could not at least provided a TTS Accessibility capability if
not full Voiceover access to text, similar to the TTS support that they have
provided on Windows in the past.
David Griffith
My Blind Access and Guide dog Blog
http://dgriffithblog.wordpress.com/
My Blind hammer Blog
https://www.westhamtillidie.com/authors/blind-hammer/posts
From: Melissa Tucker
Sent: 07 January 2018 13:16
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: got a new computer and have a kindle pc question
thanks to everyone who gave suggestions on this. however i am still having
trouble using nvda i am able to enter my email address but tabbing over for
password is not working i am contenously thrown to the forgot password website
my password still works because i have used it on another device. jaws will
not let me dony of this. it did tell me that i have windows professional. so
going back to nvda. when performing the windows-r command and going through
the results, i havehave lot more tabs than what youllre describing. one says
new user and says that i can create a password later, another one says
returning customer, which i am, but still cannot do anything with that, then i
get terms of use, help. i think that is it, but it appears that some of these
are links rather than tabs, but the way this is set up s impossible to tell i
do not have any sort of camera to use ocr with jaws anyway, i wanted your
opinions on how i might get around this i will probably have to get someone
over to help me with this set up and hopefully won't have to do it again it is
strange that i can sign in on the website, but not on the program itself i am
giving up after today until i can get some vision to help i apologize for
running this into the ground
On Jan 6, 2018, at 4:27 PM, William Brandes <williambrandes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Curtis, David. Thanks for your additional responses. I, myself, am
running Windows XP, NVDA and the older version of Kindle for PC.
I don't remember all of these problems installing, but, I often use a
mouse to check out stuff that my screenreader might not be focused on
and not returning.
Stay well ... William
