Can one use stanza to make the book more accessibil? I'm hving a play with it 
but just wondering.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:

> You know, NVDA is one of the screenreaders that will work with the Kindle App 
> for PC and enable TTS on all Kinle books.  Theoretically, anybody could 
> download and use NVDA since it is open source and free, thus giving the 
> masses access to TTS on the PC Kindle App.  I bet most sighted people are not 
> going to give a hoot, however, just like they wouldn't care if TTS was 
> enabled on their Mac if Voice Over was turned on.  Just something to think 
> about.
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
> 
>> If you go to the page on amazon for the accessible Kindle app, you'll see 
>> that they require that one have a screen reader installed to use the tts 
>> feature. that's why they can let us have access to all the books, even those 
>> that are tts disabled on the Kindle hardware. Sighted people generally don't 
>> have screen readers installed, but with Macs and I-devices, that's not the 
>> case. I hope I am proven wrong and amazon actually does make the thing 
>> vo-compatible, but I bet they don't do anything for I-devices, and they'll 
>> have to come up with a way to ensure that only screen reader users can 
>> access the tts on the Mac. How do you do that when VO is on all Macs?
>> 
>> Mary
>> Mary Otten
>> motte...@gmail.com
>> 
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