Amazon Kindle For Visually Impaired

The kindle fire hd and kindle fire hdx come with new enhanced accessibility tools for uses who are blind and visually impaired low vision hearing impaired and have low mobility.

Amazon kindle for visually impaired. The kindle paperwhite is the latest version of kindle so far and it especially caters to those that are visually impaired or partially impaired. It features the highest contrast ratio of all kindle devices making it even brighter than actual letters printed on paper but without the glare you d expect from a regular ebook reader. If amazon improves navigation with the screen reader or gives users larger text options this will change.

A user will be able to enjoy a drive and at the same time read as everything will be spoken aloud as part of the interface that has been. Kindle for low vision. They re called voice guide and explore by touch.

Blind and visually impaired. Amazon did make their apps on ios and android accessible but only after significant push back from the visually impaired community. After doing some research i discovered that there is a kindle system specifically configured for users with low vision or blindness.

It comes with a kindle paperwhite which does not display color. Here is a quick breakdown of the tools. That however looks like it s going to change.

Screen reader powered by ivona text to speech. How to use your amazon kindle kindle fire has the highest readership rates for digital content and amazon has relied to the specializing company ivona to improve support for both its text and speech.