[Electronics-talk] The Kindle reader:

[David Andrews]

The announcement of an accessible Kindle did not say either way 
whether it would be a new hardware model of the Kindle, or a firmware 
upgrade.  So, it might not be necessary to sell the current Unit.

Dave

At 10:09 PM 12/26/2009, you wrote:

>I would sell it and wait for the new Kindle to come out that is 
>supposed to be accessible
>
> > From: jessica.trask.reagan at gmail.com
> > To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
> > Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:25:40 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] The Kindle reader:
> >
> > William,
> > You would be better off selling it because it's not accessible for someone
> > whom is totally blind to use. We're you not paying any attention to the
> > lists over the last few months or so? There was and I don't know if there
> > still is a major lawsuit going on between between six universities the
> > National Federation of the Blind the American Council of the 
> Blind. Because
> > what the universities were doing was running a pilot program blitzing the
> > Kindle during this past fall semester to test how doable it would 
> be to put
> > the college's syabills and other paper items on it so that they would
> > basically be paperless so to speak. The reason for the lawsuit was because
> > it wasn't accessible for those totally blind students to use.
> > Jessica
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William ODonnell" <william.odonnell1 at yahoo.com>
> > To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>; <promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:49 PM
> > Subject: [Electronics-talk] The Kindle reader:
> >
> >
> > > Good evening list members. I received a Kindle as a gift for the
> > > holidays. I am enquiring how to fully utilize it for obtaining texts as
> > > well as navigating the menus, etc. As far as I know, it is the standard
> > > flat kindle with the arrangement of function buttons on the 
> left followed
> > > by sequences of numbers. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
> > > Thank you in advance,
> > > William
> > >