[Electronics-talk] Kindle HDX

[Ashley Bramlett]

which voices does the kindle hd use?
can you turn on speech without sighted help?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:46 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Kindle HDX

I just read an accessibility review of the latest Kindle Fire HD's at
https://nfb.org/blog/atblog/kindle-fire-hdx The bottom line is that it's
just about as accessible as an Android tablet running Jelly Bean.

On 12/05/2013 08:40 PM, Makkawy, Amin wrote:
> Happy Thursday,
>
> I was recently in Best Buy considering purchasing a tablet and ran across 
> the new Kindle HD and HDX. After messing around a bit with these tablets, 
> I managed to activate the new screen reading functions that Amazon 
> advertises on their webpage. From the little time I had, the screen 
> reading functionality seemed rather promising (maybe even approaching 
> apple voiceover levels). Anyone have more extensive experience with these 
> new kindle devices? How is the screen reading functionality?
>
> Respect,
>
> Amin
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