[Nfbk] Kendel for PCAccessibility

[Lora Felty]

MessageI do not plan to purchase one.  I'm just interested in reading a book
that I am unable to find from another source.  Thanks.
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  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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