Kindle Cloud Reader app for browsers

[kestrell]

Kes: description from the blurg but is the required version of Firefox accessible? Last time I did a FF update I had to downgrade back to the previous version.

Kindle Cloud Reader is a web app that lets you read your Kindle books, instantly.

Kindle Cloud Reader requires
Firefox 8.0 for Windows
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Buy Once, Read Everywhere

• Instant access to your Kindle library
• Continue reading even when you lose your internet connection
• Optimized for iPad: shop the integrated Kindle Store for Tablets

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Huh, on the face, it can't be optimized for iPad if it's only Firefox, cause there ain't no FF for iPad.

(I know, unhelpful.)

[kestrell]

There is more info on the download page including the. claim that it works with other browsers, such as Chrome. Have you read about Chrome accessibility? Someone from Google explained it to us poor blind folks on the MacVisionaries list. Chrome isn't at all accessible with screen readers, as a matter of fact, you have to turn off your screen reader, but then you download and install another Google app which is their TTS for Chrome and, after you learn its entirely unique set of keyboard commands, Google Chrome is accessible! There is also some thing you have to do to get started, like tab to a particular window, before the TTS kicks in.
The Google developer didn't seem to understand why some blind users felt this was not very accessible, and I personally felt like a car dealer was trying to sell me a car with square wheels.

[jesse_the_k]

Wow. That's ... words fail me.

And then there's Google's "autocaption," which is a disaster. The comics Rhett & Link have demonstrated just how much with
three videos on YouTube. These comics seem to have perfect hearing; I think they're just mocking the captions cause it's funny.

First they do a routine, run it through the autocaption, and make a transcript. Then they do a modified routine matching that first transcript, and run it through autocaption. Finally they modify the routine for the third time based on the second-time-around's autocaption. There are quite a few audio cues repeated each time, and they speak very clearly. I'd be happy to transcribe what's happening if you're interested.

As you probably also know, Google Plus is AJAX all the way and it can't even handle my dialing fonts up to 20 pt.

I think the closer mainstream tech gets to "intuitive," (in my favorite phrase, "like a toaster") the harder it gets for blind users.