Hi David,
No, in this case, enhanced type setting is available. It does not say that
screen reader is supported or that text to speech is support it. It also does
not say that they are not. It just doesn’t comment one way or the other. But
this particular book, the people versus tech, reads on my phone or my android,
just not on the PC and less I’m willing to listen to that not very wonderful
default narrator.
Mary
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On May 6, 2018, at 6:33 PM, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi, Mary.
It is likely that what you're seeing on the Kindle app in Windows is that
some books aren't using the enhanced typesetting feature. I believe that this
feature is necessary in order for screen readers to successfully read Kindle
content.
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
On 5/6/2018 8:38 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
Hi all,
From time to time, I have run across a book that won’t read well or I should
say at all on my Kindle app on my android device, and in almost all cases,
they do really well on the iPhone. Recently however, I have started running
in to a sort of book that reads OK on both of those devices, but if I try to
read that book on Kindle for PC using a windows screen reader, the screen
reader doesn’t work. It doesn’t see text. But there is narration from some
voice I don’t want that automatically starts when I load the book. I assume
this is some kind of automatic TTS that is a fallback position. These books
all say “book page view.“ I know about the business where when you look in
the book description, it will say sometimes the screen reader supported or
text to speech enabled. And sometimes it doesn’t say that. Even in some
cases when there is no notation about text to speech or scream here, the
book will turn out to work OK on the iPhone in particular, although I have
had a couple that just didn’t. Anyway, I wonder if anybody knows what is
going on here with these variations. One of the easy and great things about
the Kindle for PC is how easy it is to copy a bit of text if you want to
send a snippet to a friend in an email. Or maybe you want to copy a recipe
from the cookbook. The kindle for PC is by far the best thing for that in my
opinion. Apps apparently do have a means of text selection and copying, but
it certainly not as straightforward as doing it on a PC with a screen
reader. And then you can’t emboss in braille if we’re talking recipes here,
which you can from a PC easily, assuming you have an embosser.
Mary
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