http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496&cpage=1#comment-6059 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:32:11 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496#comment-6059 @ John Brandt – the organisations involved are all UK-based, therefore their recommendation was aimed primarily at publishers in the UK. However, the same text-to-speech debate is also taking place in the US, with Amazon continuing to let publishers choose whether their works can be text-to-speech enabled on its Kindle e-book reader.

]]> http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496&cpage=1#comment-6058 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:05:39 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496#comment-6058 Is this only in the UK?

]]> http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496&cpage=1#comment-6057 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:07:50 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=496#comment-6057 It would clearly be highly advantageous to blind people such as myself to get access to the vast amount of E-books out there say from the Kindle store. I don’t really want to buy a Kindle but I was delighted to see that Amazon has produced free applications to allow people to purchase Kindle content and “read” it on other platforms such as IPhones and PCs. I was extremely disappointed to find out that the text to speech capabilities available on the Kindle hardware devices are NOT available using their own applications! I think that concerned people should contact Amazon, as I will, to demand that they give blind people equality of access to their purchased content in applications as well as their hardware devices. I really don’t mind paying for books, but I would like to be able to access them!

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