Keep dreaming. The Windows version isn't accessible either. I think our best hope so far for mainstream books in huge quantities is the new eBook reading software from KNFB. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > News of an upcoming Kindle reader for the Mac has me hoping -- like > Charlie Brown with the football? -- that Amazon will get this one > right. They promised back in March that they'd get the text-to-speech > feature working on the Kindle menus, but that has come to nothing. The > Kindle app for the iPhone/iPod Touch offered some brief hope, but > that, too, was a bust. Now, this news has me wondering if maybe, just > maybe, Amazon will remember the blind community and ensure that the > upcoming Kindle reader for the Mac works with VoiceOver. (I just wrote > to them about this, though I expect to get nothing more than a > perfunctory "thanks, we've forwarded your message along to our Kindle > team" by way of reply. Still, I persist.) > I own a Kindle, and have used it a bit, but it is a terrible pain > without being able to access the menus. Missed a sentence? Want to go > back a page? Want to re-read that particularly interesting paragraph? > Hah! Good luck. You'll likely forget what it was you were after by the > time you are able to get somewhere. If the Mac reader works with VO, > and if it synchs back to the Kindle ... > Yes, you may say I'm a dreamer. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=.
