
"VoiceOver" Screen Reader?
Not too sure what they mean by that. The Kindles have taken heat and basically gotten drop-kicked off campuses for lacking basic "accessibility" features such as having the built-in text-to-speech be able to speak the operating system part of the display. So, for example, in theory a blind or restricted sight student could "read a book" using the Kindles text-to-speech -- except such a student has no way to navigate the Kindle to select that book to be read in the first place! And increasingly publishers are denying screen reader access to their books due to the "audible books" licensing problem. "Accessibility" is such a standard part of modern computer design that I would have a hard time believing that Apple would screw the pooch on that one, but then the question becomes one of licensing of the books re text-to-speech on the part of the publishers -- which then runs into the audible books buzzsaw that Amazon ran into. You would think that someone, Congress maybe, would step into this mess and mandate "accessibility" of e-books -- at least for those citizens reasonably requiring this feature -- certainly low-sighted people, but then the issue becomes do you allow access to those claiming dyslexia for example?