[Blindtlk] Kindle For PC?

[Sherry Gomes]

You have to make sure to download the PC version with accessibility plug in.
I might still have the link to it, if they haven't updated it. As Lloyd
says, you can then read the menus with your screen reader and use the built
in TTS for the books. But it is often clunky and frustrating, just
navigating your list of books to choose one to read is so frustrating I
often want to throw my keyboard across the room. But if you can get past
that, it's a great way to read. You don't have the kind of control you do
with a screen reader, but you can go back and forward by pages, and kindle
pages are very short, or you can go to a specific page, beginning, that sort
of thing. I put up with the eccentricities because it's another way to read,
access to books not available anywhere else.

Sherry



-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lloyd
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Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 9:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Kindle For PC?

For one thing, it's not Google but Amazon. The last I knew, you needed to 
download an "accessible" version of the Kindle program. It allowed you to 
navigate the menus with your screen reader, and then begin reading a book 
with a built-in synthesizer, not using your screen reader. You didn't have 
very much control over the reading process. This was several years ago, but 
I don't think the situation has changed.



Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Judy Jones via blindtlk
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 8:58 PM
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Cc: Judy Jones
Subject: [Blindtlk] Kindle For PC?

Hello, Folks,

I read Kindle books on my Wine Smart device all the time, but recently 
wanted to try Kindle for PC.  I downloaded it, but found that I could not 
navigate it at all with Jaws.  Have you all experienced this?  Would love to

hear back from Kindle users, and maybe where I went wrong or what I can do. 
I am really hoping this thing is accessible with Jaws, and would be very 
surprised if not, Google being Google.

Thanks very much.

Judy
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