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

[David Andrews]

I think I recently read, the last day or two, there were now "QT" 
scripts for Window-Eyes?

Dave

At 06:57 PM 1/21/2011, you wrote:
>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
>  www.facebook.com/lloyd.rasmussen
> > -----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