We need a term, the equivalent to "green-washing", which is used to describe
actions that look environmentally friendly but that are just a sham, to
describe half hearted attempts at making things accessible to us.
Blind-washing? Accedss-dancing? ADA-fake? Or perhaps, just plain lame.
Best regards
Gator
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Tekell" <[email protected]>
To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Re: kindle: okay what am I not doing?
I read that review when it first came out Russ, I never said that the
Kindle was fully accessible. What I stated was that it had made progress
and was accessiblt for its primary function, reading books. While it needs
a lot of work still, I think the first two things Amazon needs to address
is the fact that the accessible controls function cannot be turned on
without sighted help and the fact that you can't turn the book reader on as
a default. The changes needed for full accessibility wouldn't even need a
new Kindle model, all they need to do is doable in firmware, they just need
to do it.
Regards,
Chris
At 07:21 AM 1/21/2011, Russ Kiehne wrote:
Read the following review and then tell me that the Kindle is fully
accessible?
An Accessibility Review of The Amazon Kindle 3 | SeroTalk
http://www.serotalk.com/2010/09/28/an-accessibility-review-of-the-amazon-kindle-3/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Tekell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:36 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: kindle: okay what am I not doing?
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:35:57 -0700
To: "Tom Fairhurst" <[email protected]>
From: Chris Tekell <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: kindle: okay what am I not doing?
Yes, the current Kindle is accessible. It still has some issues, not all
features and controls are accessible, but the basics for reading books
are and there are some issues such as the fact that the text to speech
function must be turned on each time one wants to read, no default
setting, and you must be careful to make sure each book you purchase is
allowed for the text to speech function or you will have to use one of
the methods to convert the Kindle book to another format in order for it
to be read.
Regards,
Chris
At 08:26 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote:
I am encouraged to know that Kindle books can be read on a PC. Can they
be read on the Booksense, Victor Stream, Flex Pocket, etc? The Kindle
book reader is not accessible, is it?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Orange"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:31 PM
Subject: RE: kindle: okay what am I not doing?
Hi Chris,
I read a Kindle book today, and it went fine.
you may already know this, but you can't read these books with
window-eyes;
you must use their reader with it's voice. so, you start the reading
with
their hotkey of control-r (their hotkeys are described on their web
pages
for this program).
window-eyes is only used to read the menus, and the web site; it won't
find
or read any text from the book.
hth,
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hill [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: kindle: okay what am I not doing?
I downloaded the script and installed it. Downloaded the kindle app
and
installed it, got a book and opened it in the app. I can read the app
fine,
but can't find any text in the book. It is a gutenberg book, so there
should be lots of lovely free text there? If anyone has a clue, I'd
appreciate it.
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