Hello Esther, Well, I can only speak for myself, but the reason why I didn't get too excited about the news of the updated stand-alone Kendall device is because I don't want yet another piece of technology to carry with me. I would be happy if they'd just make the Kendall App accessible.
I do not wish to sound ungrateful for any advancement in accessibility but to me, it would make more sense to make the Kendall app accessible first, work out any bugs then port to the physical, expensive hardware product. Bah Humbug, (Smile) Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries+ow...@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries+ow...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Text-to-Speech Support on Kindle coming for Vision Impaired users Hi, I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention on this list of Amazon's announcement that they will update the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX to include an audible menu that will use text-to-speech and add new large fonts to better support vision-impaired users, and will implement these changes in 2010. This has been covered in a few places since yesterday. Here's the press release at Amazon: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=136 2556&highlight= A few links to articles reporting on this: . Yahoo (basically the news release) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Blind-and-VisionImpaired-bw-2422175966.html?x= 0&.v=1 . Techflash (has some commentary from the NFB, student reaction, and other description) http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/12/kindle_to_feature_new_tools_for_bli nd_visually_impaired.html and here's some of the older (November 2009) criticism of the Kindle's text-to-speech access from geek.com: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/kindle-dx-text-to-speech-access-critici zed-20091111/ Cheers, Esther -- 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=en. -- 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=en.
