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
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
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
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
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
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