Thanks Steve, How good is the Kindle Fire HD touch screen? Does it allow you to tap to search and doub le tap to activate, (like Apple), or does it hike you off into whatever you touch, so that you can't find your way around it first before activating (like Blackberry)? Best, Clive From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt Sent: 05 January 2015 14:39 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum Hi Clive, Speech Enabled is a bit of a misnoma now. Unless you have one of the older Kindles, the Kindle Fire HD for example, will let you hear books whether they are speech enabled or not. The Kindle app for iPhone and Android will also do this. So speech enabled is not really an issue any more. I personally with my Android app, can read any Kindle book on the store. All the best Steve -- Computer Room Services 77 Exeter Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4PW Tel: +44(0)1438-742286 Mob: +44(0)7956-334938 Fax: +44(0)1438-759589 Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Web: http://www.comproom.co.uk<http://www.comproom.co.uk/> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 05 January 2015 14:13 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [access-uk] RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum Hello all, Whatever happened to the RNIB's "Right To Read campaign? If you click on the Right to Read<http://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning>. Link on their site, it promises you that you'll go to the campaign, but instead you go to a generic campaigns page...which is in itself not a great example of web usability. Here's one to give you food for thought: I went to the Amazon site to find out whether David Blunkett's book was available on Kindle. It is not, but there was a button you could press to "tell the publishers you'd like to read it on Kindle". Click this, and Amazon will tell them you want it on Kindle. However, there's no way to get them to "Tell the publishers you would like to listen to a speech enabled version on Kindle". However, if the publishers decide they don't want you to hear it on Kindle, they can forbid Amazon from speech enabling that version. My "Y O Y O Y" rant is: "Why is it not as easy for a blind person to request a speech enabled kindle version as it is for publishers to insist that the Kindle edition be silent? Any thoughts on the fate of Right To Read or the Kindle anomaly? Best, Clive Clive Lever Diversity and Equality Officer Kent County Council Office: 03000 416388 Email: clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx> Kent County Council Room G37 Sessions House Maidstone, Kent. ME14 1XQ