[Nfbmt] acb-l] iOS Kindle app now accessible

[Dan Burke]

Well, I have to say that there weren't any ACB members in Seattle on
December 12, protesting Amazon's failure to move forward with
accessibility.  Nor were they at the numerous meetings at the National
Center with Dr. Maurer or Ann Taylor, et al that preceeded  that
protest .  So they can hardly take the credit!

I hope the specifics are accurate with respect to the accessibility of
the Kindle app for iOS.  I admit I was skeptical when I read the
posting on the Amazon site and found that it didn't even have basic
html coding, such as for an unordered list.  But I'll leave off
judging except on the app itself.

Dan




On 5/1/13, Jerry Hutch <modrepro at mt.net> wrote:
>
> Interesting news article.
>
> *************
>
> Dear all,
>
> We have spotted the pink unicorn. In this morning’s app updates,
> Amazon’s Kindle app was announced as being accessible with Voiceover.
> Initial testing suggests that remarkable work has been done. Book
> reading, note creation, highlighting, sharing and other features are all
> accessible. I am extremely pleased that blind and visually impaired
> people now have some of the world’s largest catalogs of books available
> to them via the Kindle App, Nook, and iBooks. Kindle devices still need
> to be made accessible. All of ACB’s members can take credit that such
> progress is being made in a short amount of time.
>
>
>
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