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>>Wade: Hi. I'm Wade Wingler with the Indata Project at Easter Seals Crossroad in Indiana.
You know have the access that you need to printed materials on the go especially
if you are someone who uses voice over is a pretty important thing. So,
Ron is going to show us a really cool new feature that you can use to make your iPhone
read your kindle books. >>Ron: Hi, this is Ron King, Assistive Technology
Specialist at Easter Seals Crossroads and I've got some great news.
The kindle app for iOS has been updated and now is voice over accessible. So, I'm going
to go ahead and open up our kindle app. And I've got it open right
to a book. We can use a double tap with one finger to access the Kindle menu
and with the menu on we have the upper left hand button is our home button. It will take
you back to your library. The upper right hand button is a bookmark button
and it will allow you to bookmark the page you are on. And then you have
menu buttons running across the bottom from left to right. And those are the view options
they allow you to change the fonts, size, font type, things like that.
Then you have the go to button which allows you to go to the cover of the
book, the table of contents of the book, a page number, lots of different options there.
The third button is a search button which allows you to then search the
text of the book. And then the fourth button is a sync button which allows you to
sync to the last page you've read in this book on any device that you have been reading
from. The gestures to use with the Kindle are swipe two fingers down for continuous
reading. We have to turn off the menu. Now we do two fingers.
>>Computer voice: Chapter 1. Standing Before God. I am not a pastor. I don't have any kind
of theological training.My friends would not describe me as a particularly religious
person... >>Ron: You can do a single tap with two fingers
to stop the reading and you can do the single tap with two fingers again to
start the reading back up. And then you can also tap and hold and you can't see it but
that text is highlighted. So, you can tap and hold to select text. So, now Kindle
books can be enjoyed by those with a visual impairment and we are happy to see
Amazon has gotten on the bandwagon and made the Kindle app voice over accessible.
>>Wade: And so congratulations to Amazon in making part of their products more accessible.
Let's hope that the Kindle's go that way as well. And that's your tech tip
for this week. I'm Wade Wingler with the INDATA Project at Easter Seals Crossroads
in Indiana.