That's hardly mainstream though. Still, I think you are probably right, the way Amazon caved to the author's guild doesn't leave much hope for accessibility. The only hope we may have would be to change the author's guild's attitude, but somehow I think that's even less likely than getting through to Amazon.
On Nov 18, 6:29 am, Buddy Brannan <bu...@brannan.name> wrote: > 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 > > athttp://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=.
