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Anyone used the Kindle pc app that is supposed to be accessible? Thoughts and opinions?
The Kindle for PC with Accessibility works for all available Kindle books whether Reading aloud is available on standard Kindle devices.
That said it uses I think Tom and Samantha Nuance voices. To control menus you still need a standard SR though. You can change the speed of the voice, and it does a generally good job of reading the books, I have used .mobi with it too.
There are some things about it I don't like. I'd like to be able to use my own TTS rather than the built in one, and to my knowledge there is no way to get it to use jaws or nvda or even a different one of your choice.
That said, if you don't mind having to read books exclusively on the computer, it is not a bad choice. The iPhone app as most know is not VO accessible.
Still though, there are problems with the Kindle for PC with Accessibility app, which I discussed a few of them before in Twitter and now can't think of them anymore.
I will say that in some books the voice pauses for a long time before continuing, but this depends on the book matter. It is like a gap between paragraphs or something, I am not sure. It is simple to use, space to get it to read, left right to turn to the pages, space again to get it to talk again. It is all relatively simple.
All in all it's not bad, I wish there was a way to take the books more mobile, but for a few books I have in print only and cannot get in braille or any other accessible format, it has been great in preserving them where I could not normally get them.
Most of the books are cheaper than their paper counterparts, but not all, but this seems pretty rare, most books will range from eight to ten dollars with some higher thanks to publishers.
OK if I think of more to add I will add it later on. Hope this helps a lot.
To find the Kindle for PC with Accessibility, just google that phrase, it should be the first link you come to.
Happy Reading.
Hey, this is the first I've heard of this so if I've got this understood right...you download to your own computer? Or, are you downloading to the kindle and then plugging that into your computer via a USB cord to use this app thing to get the books to read? I was told that kindles aren't accessible and it sounds that the books are reading on the computer so they aren't portable? That part would suck, but this does offer some possibilites, especially for those of us publishing our own owrk through the amazon kindle store. I don't know if I understood this right, so please explain more.
Hi
Kindle for PC is just Kindle reading software you install on your pc or laptopt.
The devices themselves are not very accessible at all.
For a very good in-depth overview of eBooks and accessibility, go to www.nfb.org .. find Braille Monitor and the January link. In there is an article by Amy Mason (she's quite cool, very knowledgable and nicely tech and geeky).
The Kindle Keyboard has speech if you want portable books.