While we're somewhat off topic, Wired had an interesting article out on
Friday about how copyright owners are fighting a plan to release e-books
for the blind. Could have impact on book readers of any flavor.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/blind_block/
CB
Christina wrote:
> The NFB h
So maybe I missed a thread someplace but is the Kindle app for iPhone
really not accessible? I download and installed it and found the
framework at least to be accessible but I didn't want to purchase an
actual book just to find out the act of reading was not.
CB
Jake wrote:
> But will we be a
so are the kindwall or stanzer Iphone apps accsesable then?
kind regards trahern.
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The NFB had to push the release of their e-book reader to January
sometime. I personally would prefer Amazon to make their apps
accessible. Why can't they just make it so that it works with the TTS
already built in to the iphone and the mac? Then voiceover can just
read the books to us a
Furthermore, this isn't really Mac related, so I wasn't sure about posting
anything about it.
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> > But will we be able to actually rea
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Hi Jacob,
Jake wrote:
> But will we be able to actually read the books after the author's
> guild basically said we have no right to and Amazon caved to them? It
> can have all the audible menus in the world,
Esther, I can't recall who posted the info, but wasn't there also something the
NFB was collaborating with to make books accessible as well? I can't recall if
this was for Kendal books, NLS books or what. Does anyone know what the status
of this iPhone app is as well?
tnx
On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:0
Agreed.
Chris.
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But will we be able to actually read the book
Hi Jacob,
Jake wrote:
> But will we be able to actually read the books after the author's
> guild basically said we have no right to and Amazon caved to them? It
> can have all the audible menus in the world, but if I can't read the
> book based on a licensing decision then it's still of no use.
But will we be able to actually read the books after the author's
guild basically said we have no right to and Amazon caved to them? It
can have all the audible menus in the world, but if I can't read the
book based on a licensing decision then it's still of no use.
Personally, I'd rather have an a
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
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