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Old 07-05-2010, 12:50 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I understand that one of the issues that blind users have with the Kindle is that the TTS only works on the text of the books, so they need a sighted person to select the book and play it. With the iPad, all the menus are read out too, so a blind user can use it entirely independently.
That's interesting. I wonder how blind people navigate the touch screen. It's not like they can tap on icons which is the standard touch paradigm. Does the accessibility feature enable some sort of gesture controls for the menu system?


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