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Originally Posted by FerretMochaLatte
As for being handicapped accessible, how do you expect a blind person to use a Kindle? Why not have it on their phone with speaker functions for the handicapped or in braille CDs that they can put into CD players?
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My cousin has a K3 and she really loves it.
The OS for the K3 was updated (finally) to allow for speech out of the box. Speech does not work with all of the keyboard but it does work with all the function keys. The Amazon website hasn't been made completely accessible and she does have an issue with Amazon not being 100% clear on which books have TTS turned off. Other than that, she's really happy to have a dedicated device. Purchasing audio books is rather expensive and she's taking full advantage of the cost of a text ebook.
The main reason that most of the blind people that I know do not want audio books on their phones or carry audio books in hard format (i.e. CDs) is space requirements and bulk. The typical blind person is looking for the same conveniences as the sighted. Having a dedicated ebook reader that does text to speech is great for space and allows blind people to carry around the same amount of books as anyone else. A regular audio books is way too large to have a multitude of books on a phone. Any large audio book in hard format can take up multiple pieces of media which will require a carrying case of some sort.
I've been an Amazon customer for over 10 years now but I've always hated their ebook/dedicated device program. Amazon went a long way in changing my mind about them when they finally became [somewhat] accessible.