Obviously, for Kindle to truly become a book reader for the blind, the user interface itself must become accessible. It was easy to recognize and differentiate these names visually, but when the synthesizer butchered them, I quickly lost track of who did what where. One book I partly read myself and partly had read aloud included names like Camaban, Cathallo, Derrewyn, Ratharryn, Saban, and Slaol. It's hard to follow unfamiliar proper names. Not having a pause after the headline makes the information hard to follow. It doesn't recognize document structure, so, for example, it'll run a headline and the start of the body text together as if they were one long sentence.I found two main problems with the synthetic voice: The synthesizer can read books at 3 different speeds, though it's not as fast as experienced blind users would likely want. As an experimental feature, this sounds pretty good - and indeed, it works better than many screen readers I've heard. Having 6 font sizes is truly a boon to all elderly readers and many low-vision users.įor blind users and those with very low vision, the device also offers a text-to-speech synthesizer. The Kindle's best feature might be its ability to turn any book into a large-print book. Sidebar to Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, Maon the usability of Kindle 2.
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