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

Sat Jan 22 00:57:07 UTC 2011

If you read the page at
  www.amazon.com/kindle/accessibility
they say that they had tested it with JAWS and NVDA.  They did not claim to
have tested with Window-Eyes.  It uses a set of platform-agnostic
user-interface tools called QT, so Window-Eyes won't work with it until you
install a script which translates QT controls into something W-E can
understand.  I haven't succeeded in downloading a book to it, but got the
user interface talking, at least.

There is a help page on that site with keyboard shortcuts, which are
unconventional, and there is other help for the Kindle PC (nonaccessible
version) which should probably be consulted.

Have fun!
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 7:42 PM
> To: 'Beth Wright'; 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk
> Mailing List'
> 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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