[Nfbf-l] Exciting news about Kindle

[Kirk]

Jodie and Jim, I just bought my son one for his deployment to Aphganistan. 
He played the voice over for me as I was curious about it. It sounds like a 
standard synthasized voice over such as JAWS. I only heard it from the menu 
however, not from any books. Your friend in the cause, Kirk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:27 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Exciting news about Kindle


This is awesome! Dear blind-interest at amazon.com subscriber,

Amazon.com is releasing a new version of Kindle for PC that adds
accessibility features designed for blind and low-vision customers.

Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin is a free, downloadable application
for your Windows PC.  It provides the following accessibility features:
text-to-speech reading with adjustable voice settings, voice-guided menu
navigation, large font sizes, high contrast reading mode, keyboard
navigation, and accessible shortcuts.

With this software, for the first time ever, the entire collection of
English language books in the Kindle Store can be read aloud.  With over
750,000 English language titles, Amazon offers the largest selection of
accessible ebooks.  In order to use the text-to-speech feature, an external
screen reader program must be installed and running on the Windows PC.

The free download is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle/accessibility

We welcome your feedback at: kindle-PC-accessibility-feedback at amazon.com

Sincerely,
The Kindle Team


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