Hello all
great news about the Kindle iOS app but is there a free book out there I
can try? Don't want to buy a Kindle book to start with plus I am not an
avid reader anyway. Cheers!
On 01/05/2013 16:27, David Griffith wrote:
As an update on my last post I did not hear the prompt for double tap for
menu.
It is not then necessary to go to the Home screen to get to controls. You
simply double tap anywhere on the reading pane to bring up the menu.
I now think that the app is very good.
The even better news is that I loaded Bad Science - book in which speech has
not been enabled on the physical Kindle and it read fine under voiceover. It
appears therefore that there is universal access to Text to Speech under the
Kindle iOS app.
David Griffith
-----Original Message-----
From: David Griffith [mailto:d.griff...@btinternet.com]
Sent: 01 May 2013 16:04
To: 'Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility'
Subject: Kindle now accessible on iOS.
Kindle has announced that it has made the iOS app accessible to voiceover.
I have just tried the app and I think there may be limited cause for
celebration.
It is certainly possible to now download a kindle book and have Voiceover
start reading the text of the book with a 2 finger upwards swipe.
In this sense it resembles ibooks.
The fact that Voiceover can read the Kindle text now is certainly a major
advance.
In one sense the app appears clunky though. I could find no easy way of
exiting the book reading window within the App.
A work around appears to press the Home Key and then re enter the Kindle App
from the Home Screen. On re-entering the app you appear to be put into a
window which allows bookmarking and navigation of the Book you are reading
by percentage. There is also a button to return to reading the book and a
Home button to return to your library where you can download your books.
It would be far easier if there was a button accessible to Voiceover which
could return you to this screen without having to exit to the iOS Home
Screen. b
It will need a little more experimentation but limited celebration seems
merited.
If anybody else finds a way around the awkward moving from the reading pane
to the app Home screen and book controls please post.
David Griffith
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