I do not know if it is limited to the US.
I also cannot get the Kindle app to use anything but Samantha.
The portion of the settings app in iOS26 that was Speech Content has
been renamed to Read and Speak.
Under there everything has new names, so I am not clear what needs to
be enabled to get Kindle to use something else for this feature.
Richard, USA
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*Sent:* Sunday, September 21, 2025 11:55 PM
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*Subject:* Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility for
Kindle books
Hi,
Where is the feature available? Is it restricted to USA alone>? How
do I find it on my Iphone if it is available everywhere? Thank you.
Best,
Ketan Kothari
On Mon, 22 Sept 2025 at 11:51, VIPhone <[email protected]> wrote:
Actually, as of about a month ago, changing voices in the Kindle
Assistive Reader works perfectly. For example, when I enable the
reader, the Alex voice TTS is used. The only TTS voices that do
not appear to work are the Siri voices.
To switch the voice in the Kindle reader, simply select the
desired TTS in the spken contents area of the accessability
settings of the OS.
Mark
On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 3:42:08 PM UTC-7 Richard Turner
wrote:
It seems to be there, but as for making use of it, not so sure.
If I was actually using it, it is stuck on the Samantha voice,
which I dislike.
It is kind of buried.
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accessibility for Kindle books
Is the accessible reader function available in the apple
kindle ap, or just on kindle devices?
On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone
<[email protected]> wrote:
Good e-Reader - Friday, September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
*Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books*
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Amazon has been pushing accessibility hard lately, making
Kindle books and Kindle e-readers better suited for people
with visual disabilities. They have added a new tab to
book description pages, called Accessibility. It has new
Accessibility metadata
<https://benetech.org/education-access-and-compliance/global-certified-accessible/>,
including Visual Adjustments, Non-Visual Reading,
Conformance, and Navigation.
Publishers have been prioritizing the submission of
e-books to Amazon that include accessibility features.
According to Publishers Weekly
<https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/98618-amazon-adds-benetech-accessible-metadata-to-ebooks-highlighting-simon-schuster-s-leadership.html>,
“The move comes as publishers face increasing legal
pressure to make digital content accessible, positioning
accessible publishing as both a competitive advantage and
a necessity as new laws such as the European Accessibility
Act and expanded digital accessibility requirements under
the Americans with Disabilities Act drive industry
momentum toward universal accessibility.”
The e-books that publishers submit have to be compliant
with Benetech’s Global Certified Accessible (GCA)
standards
<https://benetech.org/education-access-and-compliance/global-certified-accessible/>.
This is a 3rd non-profit that works with publishers
worldwide to integrate accessibility specifications into
production workflows and certifies ongoing compliance.
Amazon’s decision to display this metadata ensures that
readers with vision impairments or dyslexia can easily
find titles that meet their needs.
Some major publishers submit books that are fully
accessible, but this does not necessarily mean they are in
an accessible format. The only publisher that is putting a
priority on it is Simon & Schuster. “The publisher, which
releases some 800 titles per year, is moving from
certifying about 60% of its catalogue annually in
2022-2024 to 100% in 2025.”
There have been various Kindle software enhancements that
will appeal to readers with disabilities. Kindle Assistive
Reader is one of them and is fully available in the update
that was released a couple of days ago. It will
essentially convert any Kindle book into an audiobook,
utilizing an advanced text-to-speech system that sounds
natural. However, you do need Bluetooth headphones,
earbuds, or an external speaker. There is a new
system-wide text enlarger that will make all menus and UI
elements larger, giving users more control over the text
size they want on the entire Kindle.
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Amazon might be the only company to take accessibility
this seriously, but Kobo does too. They also have smaller
metadata information that has been available for some
time, such as a table of contents and alt text for images.
However, most of the features have been there for over s
dozen years. There have been no software updates to add
more features.
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Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks, e-books
and e-readers for the past eighteen years. He Lives in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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