News of an upcoming Kindle reader for the Mac has me hoping -- like Charlie Brown with the football? -- that Amazon will get this one right. They promised back in March that they'd get the text-to-speech feature working on the Kindle menus, but that has come to nothing. The Kindle app for the iPhone/iPod Touch offered some brief hope, but that, too, was a bust. Now, this news has me wondering if maybe, just maybe, Amazon will remember the blind community and ensure that the upcoming Kindle reader for the Mac works with VoiceOver. (I just wrote to them about this, though I expect to get nothing more than a perfunctory "thanks, we've forwarded your message along to our Kindle team" by way of reply. Still, I persist.) I own a Kindle, and have used it a bit, but it is a terrible pain without being able to access the menus. Missed a sentence? Want to go back a page? Want to re-read that particularly interesting paragraph? Hah! Good luck. You'll likely forget what it was you were after by the time you are able to get somewhere. If the Mac reader works with VO, and if it synchs back to the Kindle ... Yes, you may say I'm a dreamer.
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