Re: kindle keyboard

2012-01-05 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
I'm going back about 10 years to when I started my degree in classical music where our college had libraries full of material but no blind friendly material. that left me completely at a loss. even DAISY formats didn't exist at the time. what frustrated me the most was not having spoken media. w

Re: kindle keyboard

2012-01-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
Frankly I would like some additional information too. perhaps from you both. where is the information that the Kendal is deliberately not blind friendly? I might add that those with learning disabilities use speech as well, so this is not if correct intentionally not blind friendly, but not

Re: kindle keyboard

2012-01-05 Thread Mary Otten
No, there are two different things here. Kindle with accessibility plug in is free software for your pc. Then there is the hardware device called Kindle Keyboard. It use to be just Kindle, but since they came out with the Fire and the other recent offerings, now they call this old one Kindle Key

Re: kindle keyboard

2012-01-05 Thread Christine Grassman
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 f

Re: kindle keyboard

2012-01-05 Thread Mary Otten
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

Re: kindle keyboard

2012-01-05 Thread Christine Grassman
I, too, am curious about this. It was my belief that only Kindle PC was touted as accessible, but was not actually so, and nothing was remotely comparable to the sighted use of the Kindle. Thanks. Christine On Jan 5, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Ricardo and others, > > I didn't