Accessibility Blogs
reactions and tutorials on the new iOS Kindle app are plentiful. The reactions are not all in agreement.
Here is the NFB assessment:
https://nfb.org/blog/atblog/grading-kindle-accessibility-ios
Here is another review, from Justin Romack:
http://www.fedoraoutlier.com/breaking-amazons-kindle-for-ios-updated-with-accessibility/
And one more, from Shelly Brisbin:
http://www.stableytimes.com/news/kindle-ios-app-accessibility-update-for-the-blind-so-what/6553/
Here's a David Woodbridge podcast:
http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com/2013/05/07/extensive-run-through-of-the-now-accessible-ios-kindle-app-with-voiceover/
And for those enjoying their newfound access to Kindle books, here is a post on "25 Places To Get Free Kindle Books:"
http://freebies.about.com/od/onlinebooks/tp/free-kindle-books.htm
2) Jonathan Mosen is now an independent consultant, so I expect we'll be seeing plenty of material from his site:
http://mosen.org/
Here he has written a thoughtful article on Android accessibility, and the article has stimulated lots of discussion:
http://mosen.org/index.php/why-i-want-android-accessibility-to-succeed/
3) Jonathan also tells us about the improved iOS version of a program called Viber:
http://mosen.org/index.php/viber-becomes-more-accessible-on-ios-not-such-good-news-for-pc-and-mac/
4) The 2013.1rc2 version of NVDA has been released:
http://community.nvda-project.org/blog/NVDA2013.1rc2Released
The article "My Constant Search for Accessibility" in the May, 2013 issue of The Braille Monitor is a praise of NVDA, focusing largely on excitement over its free price tag:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm13/bm1305/bm130507.htm
AppleVis brings us BlindSquare: A Feature-Packed Navigational Tool for Blind iOS Users
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users