[gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app

[Beth Wright]

Wow!  I couldn't even get it to download and install in WindowEyes, and I 
tried it twice.

Beth Wright
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loy" <loyrg2845 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app


> It works fine with Window Eyes, Maybe uninstall and redownload and 
> reinstall.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "'Beth Wright'" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>; "'Discussion of the 
> Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 7:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app
>
>
> Hmmm ... Wonder if it works with JAWS?  I rather doubt it.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Beth Wright
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 4:08 PM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app
>
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for the list of shortcuts.  The problem is, I can't seem to get 
> them
> to work.  I get into the program, open a book, press the command to read 
> or
> listen to instructions, and get complete silence.  Incidentally, this
> program is supposed to have its own text-to-speech voice, but I just get 
> the
>
> one from the NVDA screenreader.  Looked in the menus and the help section,
> but can't find any information about turning off the NVDA speech off and
> turning the Kindle text-to-speech on.  Apparently, this is supposed to
> happen automatically, but it sure doesn't when I try to run it.
>
> Beth Wright
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Loy" <loyrg2845 at gmail.com>
> To: "Beth Wright" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>; "Discussion of the 
> Graphical
>
> User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app
>
>
>> Have you installed the QT scrip from GWMicro? Below are shortcuts for the
>> Kindle.
>> You can use keyboard shortcuts listed below to navigate the Kindle for
>> PC with Accessibility Plugin application.
>>
>> Action
>> Keyboard Shortcut
>>
>> Start reading (from top of page)
>> CTRL R
>>
>> Pause/Restart reading (from current position)
>> Space Bar or F6
>>
>> Read current sentence from beginning
>> CTRL , (comma)
>>
>> Read Previous sentence
>> CTRL Shift  Up Arrow (or Left Arrow)
>>
>> Skip forward one sentence
>> CTRL Shift  Down Arrow (or Right Arrow)
>>
>> Add note to whole page
>> CTRL Shift  N
>>
>> Highlight whole page
>> CTRL Shift  H
>>
>> Toggle voice (male/female)
>> CTRL Shift  V
>>
>> Increase speech rate
>> Shift  (+)
>>
>> Decrease speech rate
>> Shift  (-)
>>
>> Announce current location within a book
>> CTRL  P
>>
>> Toggle continuous reading
>> CTRL  Shift  C
>>
>> Jump to Reading Pane
>> CTRL  Shift  R
>>
>> Read instructions
>> CTRL  I
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Beth Wright" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>
>> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:38 PM
>> Subject: [gui-talk] having problems with the new Kindle for PC app
>>
>>
>> Hi, listers.
>>
>> I'm sure by now that a lot of you have heard about the new Kindle for PC
>> app
>> with accessibility plug-in that Amazon has just put out.  Well, I got all
>> excited and tried it out on my PC, and can't get it to work.  I looked at
>> the comments on
>> www.blindbargains.com
>> and found that somebody seemed to be having what sounded like a similar
>> problem to mine.  He said that he'd resolved the problem when he
>> discovered
>> that his system's qty libraries had a conflict with those of the
>> application.  Well, I don't know a qty library from a punch in the nose,
>> but
>> I wonder if there's any way for a non-techie like to get this thing to
>> work.
>> Has anybody tried it yet?  I'm running Windows XP.  I have WindowEyes as
>> my
>> screen reader, but this Kindle for PC program totally locks up with
>> WindowEyes, so I tried it with NVDA.  I could get into the program, but
>> can't get it to read books.  Does anybody have any suggestions as to how
>> to
>> proceed?  Any help very much appreciated.
>>
>> Beth Wright
>>
>>
>>
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