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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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>Take a Short Survey on Small Screen Displays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen on the Talking Books Librarian, the American Foundation for the Blind&#8217; is conducting a Survey on Small Screen Visual Displays at http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Mode=Survey&#38;SurveyID=101. Taken from the website: AFB TECH, the technology arm of the American Foundation for the Blind, is currently working to establish standards to improve the readability of small screen visual displays, and we want input from AccessWorld readers. Specifically, we are referring to small visual electronic displays found in products like cell phones, blood glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, alarm clocks, calculators, home appliances, and office equipment. We would like to ask our AccessWorld readers with low vision the following questions, to find out about your experiences using products with small screen displays. Small screens do not have to be inaccessible and hard to read. They also do not need to be redigned entirely from scratch to be improved despite the fact that retooling a poor design for access is not as effective as building in access from the start. Too many small screen use uneccasrily small fonts, have low contrast color schemes and lots of unused blacnk space. The Trader Joe&#8217;s card swipe machine using a blue and grey color scheme that offers nearly no [...]]]></description>
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