[nabs-l] Accessibility announcement

[Chris Nusbaum]

Jane,

	Great news! I'm glad to hear this from somebody who uses the app! As
for Amazon, let's just keep up the pressure on them! Maybe if we put enough
pressure on them they will make their Kindles accessible, but I'm not
holding my breath for it.

	By the way, as far as I know the Nook readers themselves are still
inaccessible, so they haven't solved the problem altogether as of yet. If
I'm wrong about this, please let me know.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jane
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 10:22 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accessibility announcement

I have the Nook app on my iPod.

when they say that application is accessible, they mean it.

You have to go to the Barns and Noble web site to create an account
first--they on't allow you to do that from within the app--but once you do
you can sign in, hit the Sync button, and get 4 free books.

You are also given a nice tutorial that explains about the VoiceOver
gestures that can be used to read books with the Nook application, It's ver
similar to iBooks--just about identical.

They seem to have taken a lot of time to make this app really truly work
with VoiceOver. Now, if Amazon would do likewise ... and that includes not
blocking books being read by VoiceOver ...

Jane




On Nov 30, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> hmm, how is it fully accessible? all hype about inaccessible nook and
kindle around. So does this mean the menus will talk on these I devices? is
it with voice over or their own talking synthesizer? Did they actually label
all those visual buttons so its accessible?
> 
> it would be exciting, but before  we say its great, is it actually fullly
accessible?
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: christopher nusbaum
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 7:01 AM
> To: mm-friends at acbradio.org ; National Association of Blind Students 
> mailing list ; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [nabs-l] Fwd: Accessibility announcement
> 
> This accessibility announcement came from the Maryland LBP H. Very
excited!
> 
> Chris Nusbaum
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> *From:* Mollyne Honor <mrhonor at LBPH.LIB.MD.US>
> *Date:* November 29, 2012, 12:00:20 PM EST
> *To:* <LBPH_INFO-L at LISTSRV.MSDE.STATE.MD.US>
> *Subject:* *Accessibility announcement*
> *Reply-To:* Mollyne Honor <mrhonor at LBPH.LIB.MD.US>
> 
> Buying, downloading and reading books and magazines using the Nook App 
> from Barnes & Noble is fully accessible on the iPhone, iPad and iPod.
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook-for-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch/379003
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