[Trainer-Talk] Amazon Fire Tablet

[Gabe Vega]

we offer training in this new amazon fire tablet, and we also sell keyboard cases that will protect the unit from drops and swell gives you access to a physical keyboard..
call (888) 351-5289 for more info.

> On Apr 26, 2016, at 12:37 PM, New Vision Tech Center via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
> Thought I'd let you know we bought a Amazon Fire Tablet for $49 to try out in the class room with the new screen-reader and zoom built in. You can enable it out of the box and it has a lovely tutorial as I believe was demonstrated on the Main Menu Podcast. Seems to work pretty well with books and their other apps. I haven't tried out email yet, but that's on the list. It came setup out of the box with my Amazon Prime account.
> 
> The gestures are very similar to that of VoiceOver.... Flick right and left... I really enjoy custom shortcuts like a few gestures that act like a back button and home button.
> I haven't messed with the Zoom much but it seems pretty snappy. Over all its pretty impressive experience. You do get some ads that pop up or are displayed on the lock screen from time to time. But I think for an additional $20 you can disable those... Not sure if you can do that post purchase but I'd imagine so. The on-screen keyboard works well, you touch and lift to type the character... Sometime I have a little responsiveness issues or it seems its lost focus on the item I was on, when trying to initate a double-tap. But over all its been pretty fantastic. I had a student in today with an older Amazon Kindle Fire tablet and it was a dog.... the screen reader had some weird gesture set and didn't use a double-tap for activating items. And the broswer was completely inaccessible. Also no Zoom, so their making huge strides.
> 
> Rock on!
> -David
> 
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