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		<title>Accessing the New Kindle DX</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I garnered some First Impressions of the New Kindle DX from the NYTimes&#8217;s Gadgetwise Blog. According to the post, the new Kindle DX&#8216;s main feature is its larger size. The DX has a 9.7-inch display, which the company says is 2 1/2 times the size of the Kindle 2. But the device doesn’t feel or look as large as a sheet of copier paper. It won’t give you the feeling of reading an entire page of a newspaper. You read the paper by flipping through it, article by article. With a price tag just south of $500, this e-book reader ought to have some bang for these big bucks. The larger screen is great, but what does this mean for the visually impaired? The Kindle already comes with a hobbled text to speech function and a narrow choic of font sizes. Rumors have it that Amazon engineers are looking at adding an audio interface option. Digging a little deeper on the Kindle DX s web site, I found a list of the DX&#8217;s fetures that might be useful for the visually imapired. Auto-Rotating Screen By simply turning the device, you can immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Accessible Bookshelf</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot. I always have. But as my eyesight has deteriorated, I have had to find alternative ways to get my fix. Audiobooks have been key, mostly bought from Audible.com in recent years. Lately, smartphones and dedicated e-book readers have begun to offer an accessible alternative. There is still a big trade-off between content and accessibility. Over the years, I have accumulated many posts on the subject of building an accessible bookshelf. Here&#8217;s the card catalog: Bookshelf Acces. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Bookshelf AccessAccessing your Kindle on the iPhonelarge print ideasTinkering &#038; Musing: My Web Access PageiPhone Accessibility: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs &#038; Apple]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot. I always have. But as my eyesight has deteriorated, I have had to find alternative ways to get my fix. Audiobooks have been key, mostly bought from Audible.com in recent years. Lately, smartphones and dedicated e-book readers have begun to offer an accessible alternative. There is still a big trade-off between content and accessibility. Over the years, I have accumulated many posts on the subject of building an accessible bookshelf. Here&#8217;s the card catalog: e-Book Readers Kindle’s Crystal Ball: Accessible Navigation: Spotted on The Mac-cessibility Site, Anazon&#8217;s Kindle team is working on some accessibility improvements. The main focus seems to be on voice feedbac Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible: A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. &#8220;We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new &#8230; One Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access: Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author&#8217;s Guild. Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB’s Blog: Following up on my rant against the Blount Op-Ed piece, the AFB has a well-written (much better than mine) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers, magazines and blogs while on the go; and the ability, at the click of a button, to own one of hundreds of thousands of titles in seconds. I can&#8217;t add much more without having tested the devices myself. So I’ve come around on my opposition to e-book. Somewhat. With a device like the Kindle, I could see myself reading happily on the train and buying books instantly. Despite these added conveniences, I don’t think e-books will replace books anytime soon. It is probably time that these devices are compared from an accessibility point of view. Care to lend me one? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing your Kindle on the iPhoneRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechBookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageAccessing the New Kindle DX]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. &#8220;The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in sync and read everywhere you go. Readers on the iPhone also now get access to over 200,000 ebook titles on the Amazon Kindle storefront. Check out the hands-on image gallery and video of the Amazon Kindle software on the iPhone and Kindle 2.&#8221; via Slashdot &#124; Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. The Slashdot article links to a decent review of the new app and how it words. But how accessible is this new app? Being visually impaired makes me skeptical of reading on my iPod Touch. But it is not impossible, there are several decent e-book reader apps already on the iPhone platform, including the feature rich, but content poor, Stanza and the content rich, but accessibility poor, Shortcovers. My wife has a first generation Kindle, so I tapped into her account to test out the new Kindle app. The only accessibility feature the Kindle app [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com &amp; a Chief Accessibility Officer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is there a moral duty for this, but a fiduciary one as well. The market for accessible products is only beginning to bloom as the baby boomers stat to retire. As tech savvy customers age and their eyesight fades, there will be a strong market impetus towards offering accessibility. The first issue facing Amazon is this Kindle controversy over the Talk to Me feature. Offering this capability makes the Kindle 2 nearly the holy grail of accessible reading devices for the visually impaired. Yet, allowing the publishers to disable text to speech reduces the accessibility of the device and may lose a significant market for the Kindle. Amazon needs someone who can find solutions for this situation. Perhaps Amazon should partner with the National Library Service for the Blind to provide TTS-enabled books to qualified individuals until the publishers see that Talk to Me is in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortcovers &#8211; How Accessible is this Kindle Competitor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortcovers, the alleged Kindle killer, went live this morning. So what is shorcovers? It is a e-book service built around mobile devices. The idea is to read books on your iPhone, your Blackberry or whichever smart phone you might use. Unlike other great e-book software, like Stanza, shortcovers is paired with a commercial bookstore backed by the publishing industry. In other words, shortcovers offers books you might actually want to read. shortcovers.com – Find your next great read: Discover thousands of books, chapters, news and magazine articles, short stories, blog posts and more, anywhere, anytime online and on your mobile device. Great Reads at Your Fingertips: Shortcovers.com works like you think. It’s intuitive. To find your next great read, simply search by author, title or keyword. Or you can browse for content by topic, author or popularity. Once you’ve found something great to read, simply bookmark it—we’ll add it to your Library and create an I’m Reading List just for you. Take Your Reads with You: Whether you’re online or on your mobile, you’ll always have access to your shortcovers.com Reading list and Library. With your I’m Reading list, we keep track of your most recent reads. Plus, when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will it Kill the Kindle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortcovers will be an app for mobile devices, including the iPhone, that turns your device into an e-book reader. The release date is imminent (allegedly). I still am unconvinced that mobile device screens are big enough for sustained reading. More details when the app arrives. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Bookshelf AccessAccessing your Kindle on the iPhoneShortcovers &#8211; How Accessible is this Kindle Competitor?Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimesAccessible e-Reading: Google Books]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible e-Reading: Google Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Google announced that its Book Search would be available for iPhone and other mobile device users. I like to read, so I thought I would see how it works and how accessible it is. I looked at another e-book reader, Stanza, in an earlier post, so I will look at the differences. As noted in the NY Times article on the accouncement, Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones, the key feature is the use of text rather than images. Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks. [PC Workd also has a good summary of the announcment.] Google has done this for the same reason as Adobe does in its Reflow command, using text allows the text to be reformatted easily for different screens and devices. Using text has a great side benefit as well, making the text accessible to accessibility modifications and to screen readers. I have never been able to use Google Book Search on my computer since the images are not amenable to my color and font [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times, along with every other news source, is reporting on the new version of Amazon&#8217;s e-book reader, the Kindle.Buried among all the other changes is one important accessibility feature: text-to-speech. According to the Times: Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or personal document can be read aloud,” Mr. Bezos said. Users can switch between reading text and hearing it read by a fairly computerized voice. “It’s very easy to go back and forth between reading and listening,” Mr. Bezos said I have tested out the first version, as my wife has the Kindle 1.0. With its adjustable font size set to the maximum, I can read the text fairly easily with my low vision reading glasses. I look forward to testing out the new text-to-speech feature when I find someone with the new version. The new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech offers two voices, male and female, and does not offer variable speed playback. I really like the variable spped playback on the iPod, though I wish it had more than three settings. We will have to wait on reviews of the reading quality, but Nuance, who provides the Kindle&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanza Review Update &#8211; Reading Books on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have updated my review of Stanza, an iPhone e-book reader app. Stanza came out with a new and improved version. Plus, I finally figured out how to do screen shots on my iPod Touch. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Stanza &#8211; Accessible E-Book Reader for the iPhoneAccessing your Kindle on the iPhoneAccessible e-Reading: Google BooksAccessing iPhone AppsBookshelf Access]]></description>
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		<title>Stanza &#8211; Accessible E-Book Reader for the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scanning through the Personal Tech section of the Times, I bumped into an interesting tidbit, &#8220;Tip of the Week &#8211; Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8220;. I have an iPod Touch (the iPhone sans phone), so I ws intrigued, though remaining skeptical, by this tip. I just downloaded the app, Stanza, to my iPod and fell in love. On a technical level, it is a perfect application of accessibility for a visually impaired user.To the right, you can see a piece of the settings screen for Stanza. The app is highly, helpfully and eassily adjustable. The font sizes can be adjusted with a very wide range. You can select font and background colors with a wide selection of choices, not just a simple reverse color scheme option. Font size can be adjusted on a simple slide bar. All these changes are reflected immediately in the sample text window at the top. Even line spacing in adjustable. The screen rotates with the iPod, so you can read it wide screen with all its advantages. Pages can be turned with a simple flick on the screen. Best of all, it retains your choice of settings. I could not be happier [...]]]></description>
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