[Nfbk] Kendel for PCAccessibility

[slerythema]

Yes, but it was lacking a lot of the navigation accessibility that you
usually have with your screenreader. (At least, as of the article that I had
read). You could read from beginning to end straight, but there was a lot of
problems or totally unusable features like reviewing words, moving back and
forth by word, sentence, character, and I think it had problems returning to
your place if you left a book and came back.
 
Cindy

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Michael Freholm
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:56 AM
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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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From: nfbk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Lora Felty
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:00 PM
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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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