The first couple of things I'm going to say are true of android. I 
remember them being true of Kindle HDX, but it's been a few months, so I 
may be misremembering.

On Android, you interrupt speech on a tablet just by touching a blank 
part of the screen, like near an edge. I think that's what I did on the 
Kindle as well.

This method doesn't work for interrupting music. if the last thing you 
touched was the Play button, you should be able to double-tap anywhere 
on the screen to toggle it. If you want to do something else on another 
app while you're listening to music, you may try using the right angle 
gestures to leave the music app. Sometimes that keeps focus on your last 
control.

About sliders, in recent versions of TalkBack, you can touch the slider, 
then either swipe anywhere on the screen or use the volume keys to 
adjust them. If that doesn't work, touch the slider, then swipe along 
the actual slider. It's one of those things that's hard to get the hang 
of, but once you get it, things work. I don't remember if sliders 
behaved differently on Kindle.

Here's a help page for the Kindle, and it mentions an on-board 
accessibility help:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201588900

About BrailleBack, it's my understanding that Amazon has its own version 
and that Google's version doesn't work on the Kindle. I never got 
BrailleBack to work on the Fire HDX, but I sometimes use BrailleBack on 
Android.


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