This Kindle
Fire accessibility feature turns on closed captions of movies and TV from Amazon Instant Video and any other videos that have closed captioning available when played on the web (Silk Browser).
This Kindle
Fire accessibility feature is great for those with visual impairment who need additional voice help to describe items being touched and new screens that are visited.
If you've turned on one of the Kindle
Fire accessibility features you may be having trouble turning them back off, especially if it's the voice screen reader or explore by touch options.
For additional information on these Kindle
Fire accessibility features see Amazon's help pages:
The main difference between the two Kindle
Fire accessibility features is that one is on the Kindle Fire HD (2012) and the other is the HD & HDX (2013 releases).
Not exact matches
Today, Amazon announced that it is bringing «Voice Guide» and «Explore by Touch» — two new
accessibility features previously available on Kindle
Fire HD 8.9» — to its new standard definition Kindle
Fire and Kindle
Fire HD 7».
With Kindle
Fire HD 8.9» and soon our full line of new tablets, we are continuing our efforts to provide a range of
accessibility features — Voice Guide, Explore by Touch, text - to - speech, optional text coloring and adjustable font sizes — for our vision - impaired customers,» said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.
Amazon is listening to all parties involved and is launching new
accessibility features in Kindle
Fire and Kindle
Fire HD, early next year.
Amazon will be bringing new
accessibility features to the Kindle
Fire HD 7 and Kindle
Fire in 2013.
Related: Amazon Goofed up — Promises to Bring Basic Android
Accessibility Features to Kindle
Fire, Kindle
Fire HD, from The Digital Reader.
In addition to the services that the Kindle
Fire HDX launches with, there's more to come from the latest Mojito software, including enhanced
accessibility features and a new FreeTime system designed to make it easier to hand your tablet over to your kids and let them enjoy their content.
Ivona already powers the «Text - to - Speech,» «Voice Guide» and «Explore by Touch»
accessibility features of Amazon's Kindle
Fire, so bringing those in - house creates some obvious synergies there — but its primary business is Speech Cloud, a software - as - a-service infrastructure that companies use to automate call centers or add e-mail-to-speech functionality.
The Kindle
Fire has some excellent
accessibility features, but if you test them out you may find yourself having trouble turning them back off again.
FYI: All Kindle
Fire tablets except the first generation (2011) come with
accessibility features.
Blind and visually impaired customers will discover new and improved
accessibility tools such as Screen Reader, Explore by Touch, and Screen Magnifier, enabling access to the vast majority of Kindle
Fire features.
IVONA is already instrumental in helping us deliver excellent
accessibility features on Kindle
Fire, including Text - to - Speech, Voice Guide and Explore by Touch,» said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.
We look forward to continuing to develop and extend our
accessibility features on Kindle
Fire and our other Kindle apps.»
Amazon brings new
accessibility features, including braille input / output for
Fire tablets and magnification for
Fire TV, for blind and visually impaired customers.
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