Sentences with phrase «for blind readers»

The way the library was designed created barriers for blind readers and blind readers couldn't read books on Script.

Is the new Kindle 3 good enough for blind readers to use by themselves?

While we're on the subject of accessibility for blind readers would you mind signing the Reading Rights coalition's petition to convince publishers to stop blocking TTS from the Kindle Keyboard due to their paranoia that it might interfere with audiobook sales?

The NFB has released a statement commending Amazon for making Kindle 3 accessible to blind readers — That's perhaps the surest sign that Kindle for Blind Readers is now a reality.

Finally, the Kindle 3 has delivered on Amazon's promise of making the Kindle accessible for blind readers.

With the Kindle 3 Amazon has added features that make Kindle accessible for blind readers and low vision readers.

These are just further suggestions to make Kindle even better for blind readers.

Not exact matches

The bigots will always be blind, but CNN should know better, and should offer an apology to its rational readers and agree it will not pick headlines for the purpose of merely generating the web - traffic of bigots (they already have websites they can visit for their verison of the truth).

Broader access came in May, when Amazon released an application that allows many Kindle e-books to be read on Apple devices using Apple's VoiceOver — a screen reader designed for the blind.

For instance, Kurzweil's new reading machine — co-developed with the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) as the KNFB Reader Mobile — fits into a cell phoFor instance, Kurzweil's new reading machine — co-developed with the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) as the KNFB Reader Mobile — fits into a cell phofor the Blind (NFB) as the KNFB Reader Mobile — fits into a cell phone.

For example, screen readers «adapt» conventional text by converting it into content spoken by a synthetic voice, thereby making standard text accessible to blind students.

For those readers willing to concede that the liberal tilt in the education space has perhaps created some blind spots, here are some thoughts that may be helpful in making sense of the political landscape and the implications of the election.

Guidelines for Working with Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired in Virginia Public Schools Virginia Department of Education This 42 - page manual is excellent for families, administrators, and general education teachers who need to understand how educational services are delivered to students with visual impairments (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

* You Can't Beat the Price with These Options * PREMIUM 1 PACKAGE - inc: 115V AC Power Outlet In cargo area, Power Liftgate, Garage Door Opener, Digital Compass Display, iPod / MP3 Media Interface Package, iPod / MP3 Media Interface Cable, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio, Auto - Dimming Mirrors, driver side and rear view mirrrors, Power Tilt / Sliding Panorama Sunroof, MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE - inc: Rearview Camera, Navigation Map Updates Included For 3 - years, Radio: COMAND System w / Hard - Drive Navigation, 40 GB COMAND system w / HD navigation, 7» color display, SIRIUS real time traffic service, in - dash PCMCIA memory card reader, Gracenote media database and 6 GB HD w / music register, LANE TRACKING PACKAGE - inc: Lane Keeping Assist Package Code, Blind Spot Assist, Lane Keeping Assist, WHEELS: 19» 5 TRIPLE SPOKE (STD), SIDE SKIRTS PAINTED, KEYLESS GO, HEATED STEERING WHEEL, HEATED FRONT SEATS, BLACK ASH WOOD TRIM.

Solid Paint, Parking Assistance Pack, Privacy Glass, RS Sports Exhaust System, Rear - View Camera, Red Brake Calipers, Top Speed restriction increase to 174 mph, Full dealership history, Excellent bodywork, Black Full leather interior - Excellent Condition, Tyre condition Excellent, Four wheel - drive, Standard Features - Adjustable Steering Column / Wheel - Rake / Reach, Anti-Theft alarm, Audi Chorus Radio / Single CD Player with MP3, SDHC Memory Card Reader and Aux - in Socket, Audi Connect Infotainment Services, 36 Months, Audi Parking System Plus - Acoustic and Visual Park Assist System for the Front and Rear of the Vehicle, Audi Side Assist (Blind Spot Assist), Automatic Start - Stop Function, Cruise Control, Cup Holder in Centre Console, DAB Digital Radio, Deluxe 3 - Zone Climate Control, Door Mirrors (Folding), Drivers Information System (DIS) in Colour, Electric Front Windows, Electrically Adjustable Front Seats, Front Centre Armrest, Front and Rear Floor Mats, Heated Front Seats, High - Beam Assist, Hill Hold Assist, LED Headlights with LED Rear Lights, LED Interior Lighting Pack, Light Sensor, MMI Navigation Plus with 3D Navigation, MMI Touch Control Panel, Mobile Phone Preparation - Bluetooth Interface, Quattro with Sports Differential, RS Specific Audi Virtual Cockpit - 12.3 in, RS Super Sports Seats, Rain Sensor, Rear Spoiler, Tyre Pressure Loss Indicator, Upholstery - Fine Nappa Leather with Contrast Honeycomb Stitching.

LIA — Libri Italiani Accessibili (a service by AIE - Italian Publishers Association) «The goal of LIA is to increase the availability of digital books for blind and visually impaired readers, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the new EPUB features.

To make Kindle more useful for the blind, the Kindle team is currently working on an audible menuing system so blind and vision - impaired readers can easily navigate to books unassisted, in addition to listening to books as they can already do today with Read To Me.

«The goal of LIA is to increase the availability of digital books for blind and visually impaired readers, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the new EPUB features.

Today, Amazon announced that it is working on a new set of features that will make Kindle even better for these readers as well as a meaningful breakthrough device for the blind.

Clearly the Voice Guide is a significant aid for helping a blind person navigate the Kindle, but once inside a book with text - to - speech turned on, the blind reader has no reasonable navigational control at his disposal.

They looked interesting so I searched for â $ œKobo e reader accessibility.â $ Because, yâ $ ™ know, Iâ $ ™ m blind.

PDF (Portable Document Format) can be read with JAWS (Job Access With Speech, version 5), a popular screen reader for Windows used by 80 % of blind people.

As Bandi's characters both fear and sling accusations, the title takes on piercing gravitas for readers: knowingly turning a blind eye to such inhumanity is not an option.

Now, Hachette has gone even further in its support of readers by making the audio editions of its back list and select new releases available free of charge to the NLS, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

The ability to adjust fonts and type size and to employ text - to - speech technology on reading platforms promised much greater access for visually challenged readers — many more than for people who are legally blind.

Putting too much credence to this statistic would blind them to the fact that they are bleeding readers and subscribers to other industries who offer a completely different kind of service — one that nonetheless substitutes for newspaper reading.

These books are also available to visually impaired readers from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (1 -888-NLS-READ) or Bookshare in at least one of the following formats: Braille, large - print, audio, or digital download.

i am just looking for a reader that i can carry around and read i don't need all gadgets i was looking at amazons DX but the button for turning pages are on the right hand side i need either both or touch screen (bum shoulder) i am going blind love to read and the amazon kindle 2 is starting to frustrate me with fonts..

Intel Reader: A Reader for the Blind and Dyslexic — The Intel Reader is a specialty device marketed in the health care industry as an aid for the vision impaired and for reading - based learning disabilities.

2) Via listener Nick Todd in Southampton and the BBC I learn of a Kindle for PC accessibility plug - in which enables blind and vision impaired readers to use text - to - speech even for books where the capability has been disabled by the publishers.

When I can't convince myself that I'd trust MathML rendering... and unformatted math is as inaccessible for sighted readers as pictures of math can be for blind... well, that's how we get stuck in these cycles.

Online Resources for Blind and Partially Sighted Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

(AP)-- Three universities testing Amazon's Kindle in the classroom have agreed to shelve the electronic book readers until they are fully functional for blind students, under a deal struck Wednesday with the Justice Department.

Many are engaged in a campaign to obtain access for the blind and others with print disabilities to e-books available for Amazon's new Kindle 2 e-book reader.

Push Amazon to reproduce whatever it did in Kindle for PC with the Accessibility Plugin to make TTS disabled books accessible to blind Kindle readers on these notetakers as well.

For example, readers who are blind, or others who just prefer audiobooks over text - based books.

Screen reader technology for the blind can often communicate with devices that create braille displays, and the Kindle does not offer that option, he says.

Blind Spot: There are a lot of high - quality self - published e-books for very low prices that are competing for readers.

Amazon this morning announced a major update for Kindle for iPhone and iPad, making it easier for blind and visually impaired readers to use the Kindle iOS apps.

For another, telling color - blind readers that the red column in a table indicates stop while the green column means go makes the content all but useless.

While that isn't an issue for most people as they will just be using it for reading books, it will be an issue for blind or short sighted readers as they won't be able to read audio books any more.

But for blind and visually impaired users who work with screen reader software, accessibility is far fr...

«Braille Kindle» developed for the blind: Tactile tablet will allow people to feel images and text on the screen (Daily Mail)-- This reader has a lot of potential.

-LSB-...] News «Amazon borrows from YouTube script, opens marketplace to video creators» $ by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times — May 10, 2016 «Google» $ ™ s Answer to Amazon's Echo is code - named «Chirp» $ ™ and is landing soon» by Marg Bergen at The Verge — May 11, 2016 «Forget Amazon» $ ™ s Echo: Lexi lets you speak to Alexa through your phone» $ by MIX at TheNextWeb — May 6, 2016 «Move Over Lexi — Roger Puts Amazon Alexa in Your iPhone for Free» by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader — May 12, 2016 Free Roger app for iOS «Goodreads launches free e-book giveaway promotions for $ 119 fee» $ by Chris Meadows at TeleRead — May 6, 2016 Tech Tip Audible's new Send This Book feature Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Audible)-- email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com if you» $ ™ d like me to send you a free copy of this audiobook, using Audible's new Send This Book Book Feature Interview with Peter Korn Amazon's guide to VoiceView Kindle Paperwhite blind and visually impaired readers bundle My Coverage of VoiceView at TeleRead and The Kindle Chronicles — May 10, 2016 Content Trump» $ ™ s America: The Complete Loser» $ ™ s Guide by Scott Dikkers Next Week's Show Interviews and my observations from Book Expo America in Chicago If you are interested, please check out my BEA Liveblog posts on Goodreads author tips and Rethinking the Standard Author Contract -LSB-...]

A week ago, I set readers a mystery / blind stock challenge — to estimate an intrinsic / fair value for four mystery companies: Conquest, War, Famine & Death.

Instead of showing readers the highly trafficked memorials and museums, it shows us places like Baumhaus an der Mauer, the Schwerbelastunskörper, the Former Prison Park, the Jewish Cemetery on Weissensee, and the Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind.

Obviously figures like No 1 are pretty tough to do no matter how you go about it but for the simpler ones you may want to use both different colors for lines and different dash patterns, makes it easier for the color blind readers.

As readers of Publishing Perspectives know, the purpose of this international treaty is to facilitate access to published works for people who are «blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled» by creating a universal copyright exception that will allow authorized parties to «travel» accessible formats to appropriate consumers.

For instance, the Smart Reply feature of Google's Inbox email app suggests one - line responses to incoming emails, and the Facebook app now offers machine - generated photo captions for the News Feed through the screen reader on iOS to help blind users understand what their Facebook friends are shariFor instance, the Smart Reply feature of Google's Inbox email app suggests one - line responses to incoming emails, and the Facebook app now offers machine - generated photo captions for the News Feed through the screen reader on iOS to help blind users understand what their Facebook friends are sharifor the News Feed through the screen reader on iOS to help blind users understand what their Facebook friends are sharing.

You could have all the facts written accurately and still be rejected because the reader is looking for something you are blind to.