[Nfbk] Kendel for PCAccessibility

[Michael Freholm]

I believe the Kindle program for PC uses your text to speech program 
such as JAWS to read the text.
Michael

On 9/26/2011 3:24 AM, slerythema wrote:
> The Kindle (K I N D L E) is barely accessible for low vision. While 
> you can increase the print size, the menus are still small print (8 or 
> 10 point font). You could probably memorize some of the menus, but 
> many of them change depending on what book you are in. Buying a book 
> is also difficult. Also, not all books have the read-aloud function 
> enabled and a lot of the controversy from the author's guild over this 
> has caused many authors/publishers to automatically disable this 
> feature without really understanding whether this is good for their 
> particular book and audience. These observations are all based off my 
> use of the Kindle that we gave my mother and I have to teach how to 
> use it. (Plus, my knowledge and access to the literary world as a writer.)
> I have not used the PC version. However, the Braille Monitor had an 
> article about it that stated is was better than the device but still 
> had many issues for true accessibility.
> Cindy S.
>
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>     *Subject:* [Nfbk] Kendel for PCAccessibility
>
>     Has anyone ever tried to use the Kendel for PC program to read
>     Kendel books from Amazon.  Someone told me that they thought the
>     ap for the PC was accessible, even though the actual Kendel
>     isn't.  Does anyone know?
>
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