Thursday, December 6, 2012

Amazon bringing Voice Guide and Explore by Touch features to Kindle Fires for vision-impaired users


Amazon’s been attuned to the needs of its vision-impaired customers for years, first rolling out text-to-speech technologyon its original Kindle e-reader years ago. Today the company revealed plans to add to that feature set in its Kindle Fire andFire HD (7-inch) tablets with Voice Guide and Explore by Touch technology.
Voice Guide’s an improvement upon regular text-to-speech tech that reads aloud any action performed by users — things like announcing app names and book titles when they’re selected. Explore by Touch lets folks swipe their fingers across their Fire’s display and identifies each onscreen item as their phalanges pass over them. Once aware of what app or piece of content’s being touched, a simple tap opens the item. Ready for the new assisted navigation experience right now? Well, all you anxious Fire owners will have to wait, the update doesn’t land until early next year.

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