so, if I understand you correctly, if I purchase a Kindle with the accessibility plug-in, using the keyboard to read is accessible: I can start, stop, pause, etc., without sighted assistance? However, if I am interrupted unexpectedly, or if I lose the place where I was reading, there is no way for me to find the place where I left off without sighted assistance, except by having the device read all the wy through to that spot? No ability to even go page by page or chapter by chapter independently to speed such a thing up? I appreciate any clarification. I am constantly frustrated by not being able to buy an e-book available in the Kindle store because of the great selection, but I have to figure out if the accessibility headache is worth the money and whether, in fact, I want to support a device which could so easily be accessible but is deliberately not blind-friendly for spurious reasons. Christine On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
> Kindle for pc with accessibility plug in and kindle keyboard both have some > accessibility. If you are happy with being able to read books that have text > to speech enabled, but don't care about reviewing line by line, spelling > words or names, taking notes and knowing the context once you go back and > look at the notes, and you are ok with shopping in the store on your pc or > mac, not on the device itself, then Kindle keyboard will have some utility > for you. Kindle for pc has the advantage that even books that don't have tts > enabled will still work with the accessibility plug in. You must have a > screen reader running at the same time, but the books are read by either the > Samantha or Tom voices, as they are on Kindle Keyboard. There is absolutely > no Kindle accessibility on the Mac or with VO, and the updates to the > accessibility for both the keyboard device and the pc plug in have been > nominal to nonexistent. Because Kindle store has stuff I can't find anywhere > else, I have used both the kindle for pc with plug in and the Kindle Keyboard > for straight reading of novels that can be done like you use to read a > library of congress talking book tape or record. Just don't plan on efficient > navigation or serious interaction with the text. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
