Hi All

I contacted Amazon today to ask then to give me a reason why the 
accessibility plugin is not available for UK customers so I can pass 
this on to disappointed disabled students here in the UK who've tried to 
use the package. I explained that several print impaired university 
students had found the Kindle device to be quite helpful but were 
disappointed to discover they could not access Kindle content on the PC 
via text-to-speech strategies, unlike their fellow students in the US. I 
simply received an automated response from Amazon.

Does anyone here know why they have deliberately removed the 
text-to-speech function from the non-US version of the Kindle PC app?

I note that the app also does not appear to work with a screenreader. 
Does the US version expose itself to a screenreader to allow text to be 
read e.g. via Jaws?

Best wishes
Ian Francis


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