Accessibility: Reading on Kindle facilitated with VoiceOver - ActuaLitté - Actualitté.com

Earlier this month, Amazon updates its playback application to improve accessibility. Indeed, the U.S. laws on the subject are starting to become rather repressive, and Amazon is clearly trying to avoid fining. However, if they are sufficient to comply with the legislation, improvements in the e-commerce site are far from convincing stakeholders.

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George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and founder of the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum), nevertheless praised Amazon’s action as “ pretty good and long overdue ” . The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has relayed a similar reaction of its members, but expects further efforts, particularly with regard to educational uses.

Amy Mason, a member of the Technology Team Acess and the NFB, has provided new targets for access to digital texts: “ clear markings indicating whether the book is in image format or another as unreachable “, in addition to interoperability across all platforms to sell ebooks. At the reading itself, Mason recommends opportunities font settings in the text and menus, the latter being generally lacking, at Amazon, any adaptation to public prevented.

NFB and other organizations therefore continue the pressure on Amazon, particularly with respect to educational use of digital books. A few months ago, the first choice of the Kindle to equip students shocked, given its low level of accessibility. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) now requires private and public companies to comply with the specifications in terms of accessibility.

equal access to text with VoiceOver also embodies that team for a while the Apple devices and just add the Kindle applications “ I am now curious to see how users will appropriate application and content, or even if the ebooks themselves are accessible, especially if they have special items such as images, embedded videos, links or footnotes page “says S. G. Ranti Junus, professor at the University of Michigan.

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(via Information Today)

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