Accessibility, parental control: Amazon Improves Kindle app - Actualitté.com

Undeniably, Apple’s products are among the most accessible to the public prevented their access to reading: very good VoiceOver works wonders in this area. But the Kindle app does not really transformed the test, and followed the rigid and uncompromising style devices from e-commerce site. The application has been updated, but the result is still far from being up to par.

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update therefore applies to Apple products, and aims to take a little more rather effective technical solutions they offer in terms of accessibility. And to assess this criterion, it is undeniably to the pressure group National Federation of the Blind that we must turn. This union, particularly active and motivated, do not hesitate to get in the front line to defend the rights of those it represents.

3.7 version of the application Kindle reading for iOS, dated May 1, 2013 and offers many options related to VoiceOver, allowing each set of reading aloud. Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the NFB, welcomed in a press release updates from Amazon, after a rather favorable direction day. “ But this application must be constantly improved to make it suitable for teaching purposes, and Amazon must also make its fully accessible units ” says Dr. Maurer however affirming the commitment of the organization.

Indeed, the last day a posteriori of equipment and services to make them accessible to the public is prevented a method that is not the NFB, which recommends the monitoring of standards in reading digital. Entering Kindle ebooks in classrooms had also led a resistance movement in the NFB, both proprietary formats and other restrictions digging the gap between blind students, visually impaired and blind.

update that could ultimately lead to an announcement effect to certain audiences, how the new Kindle ads. One for the Fire, clearly oriented towards edutainment using Amazon’s tablet and the Kindle, which lets children speak in purveyors of truth on digital reading.

(via The Digital Reader)

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