[nabs-l] Accessibility announcement

[Beth]

Speaking of Amazon, well, I avoid doing busines with the company 
and wrote a letter explaining why it is important to make Kindle 
accessible.  Lots of books I would love to read are available in 
the Kindle, not anything else, and I'm ick of the disabled proof 
crap that Bookshare and Learning Ally require.
Beth

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jane <juanitatighan at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:21:34 -0500
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/3
79003589
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