I got the Kindle Fire 7 a couple of weeks ago and it has some nice features for obtaining and playing music.  Amazon is now calling their screenreader VoiceView.  There is a tutorial which covers some of the basic gestures.  The only problems I have had are accessing sliders to adjust them and also finding a way to interrupt speech or stop music playing.  There isn't a manual for the screenreader and the tutorial doesn't cover much.
 I am having a problem with  getting BrailleBack to work at all.  Evidently Amazon has its own version and this one doesn't display text properly when reading a book.  Amazon customer service wasn't aware of BrailleBack and they were clueless to tell me what to do.  I haven't found much documentation on Google about BrailleBack either.  I tried the latest version of BrailleBack on an Android phone and that didn't work very well either.
Amazon is giving presentations at CSUN but I'm not sure how much they will cover.  I'm not even sure if Amazon has an accessibility team you can reach.  I did recognize some names listed in the CSUN abstract but I wouldn't know how to contact the people.

Dan

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> On Feb 9, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Modern Kindle tablets are very similar to Android tablets. I had the Fire HDX from two years ago. Generally speaking, it worked well, but it had a focus issue, especially if you were exploring (as opposed to swiping), so sometimes you had to explore or swipe more than usual in an area to find an icon. Based on comments posted to the eyes-Free Android list, it sounds like this new version doesn't have the focus issue.
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> If you know Android, the learning curve is small. If you know iOS, the learning curve is big. I suspect a lot of the complaints from two years ago came from iOS people who hated learning something new. While we still have plenty of those people on the Eyes-Free list, I also get the sense that the community is generally more receptive to Android now than it was then.
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> My own personal gripe with the Kindle is that you have to give Amazon lots of creepy permissions. For example, when you log into things like Twitter, Face Book, and Skype, you have to give Amazon permission to access your contacts. I don't mind giving Google this type of permission because some of what Google does with that information is beneficial to me in terms of more data, but I very much mind giving Amazon the information since the only thing Amazon is going to do with it is advertise to my friends.
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