Amazon to Add Kindle Features for the Visually Impaired

Yesterday Amazon announced two new Kindle features for the blind and visually impaired: audible menus and a seventh, larger font. According to a press release, Amazon will add these features in a firmware update coming in Summer 2010.

There has already been much talk about the Kindle’s text-to-speech capabilities, allowing those with visual impairments to enjoy any of the content in the Kindle Store (provided the publisher enables text-to-speech for their books and magazines). These two new features–talking menus and a new font, which Amazon is calling “super size,” and which will be twice as big as the current largest font–go a long way toward making the Kindle an accessible device.

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