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Originally Posted by Buran
According to the 7" user's guide, there's a new menu item called Accessibility in the settings menu. This is completely absent in the first Oasis as far as I can see. Like font bolding, I'll give invert a try when the new one arrives and see if I like it. It might be useful for reading late at night in bed, though as it is the light from the screen isn't very bright and not a bother.
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Up to now, Paperwhite3/Voyage/Oasis show Accessibility menu only when you plug in the audio dongle which enables VoiceView (provided you have installed the voice files).
On the Kindle (8th gen), which has Bluetooth, with the latest update, the Accessibility menu is there even when VoiceView is not enabled. (To enable VV without accessing the menu, you have to 1) put the BT audio device in pairing mode, 2) press power button for 7 seconds, and 3) touch the screen with 2 fingers for a second, and then 4) wait for pairing to complete.)
But the new ‘Display Size’ and ‘Invert Black & White’ Accessibility settings pertain only to Oasis 2. Display Size may require the larger screen, and Invert Black & White may have a hardware dependency (Oasis 2 has a newer GPU which may enable the feature). So all you would see there would be the toggle for VoiceView, the VV Tutorial, VV Speech Rate and VV Volume options.
Too bad if Invert feature cannot be backported.
Recently I again came across an Oasis 1 teardown which revealed that it has Bluetooth capability. And now we have learned that the Audible player will arrive for Kindle (8th gen) and Oasis 1 ‘in a few months’ (but not for the other Kindles), which would seem to confirm that Oasis 1 indeed has Bluetooth. Presumably this Audible feature update will finally enable BT on Oasis 1 (along with official accessibility support).
It seems they could modify the other Kindles to support Audible but they would need to complicate the procedure used to enable VoiceView, something which now is as simple as plugging in the dongle. So that probably won’t happen.