I have a sight-impaired friend who would appreciate having one of those Kindles drop-kicked in his direction. He figures he can deal with the buttons somehow.

Here is a reference to the National Federation of the Blind lawsuit over Kindle use on College Campuses, which was concluded by ending the Kindle campus program in progress, and Kindle agreeing to improve accessibility. The lawsuit alleged that the Kindles were inaccessible to blind students and thus violate federal law. http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=527 So hopefully Kindles will someday soon be able to speak the buttons and the list of book titles and authors. Can't find any place that Amazon talks about this issue -- not surprisingly! Hopefully Apple and iPad have enough experience that they will not step into the same puddle!

Am 29.01.2010 um 21:59 schrieb Jim Adcock:

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I have a sight-impaired friend who would appreciate having one of those Kindles drop-kicked in his direction. He figures he can deal with the buttons somehow.

Here is a reference to the National Federation of the Blind lawsuit over Kindle use on College Campuses, which was concluded by ending the Kindle campus program in progress, and Kindle agreeing to improve accessibility. The lawsuit alleged that the Kindles were inaccessible to blind students and thus violate federal law.

http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=527

So hopefully Kindles will someday soon be able to speak the buttons and the list of book titles and authors. Can't find any place that Amazon talks about this issue -- not surprisingly! Hopefully Apple and iPad have enough experience that they will not step into the same puddle! Apple has the technology for text-to-speech. They should be able to port it. They managed iWorks, i am sure they can manage text-to speech. The question remains if the iPad will still preform well. We have to wait and see.

regards Keith.