Kindle by Amazon
- Reading System Kindle
- Vendor Amazon
- OS: Android
- Tested with Braille: No
- Tested with Screenreader: No
- Input type: Keyboard
Results for Visual Adjustments: 100%
Last updated: 21 January 2022
Test book used: Fundamental Accessibility Tests: Visual Adjustments, version 1.0.0
These tests were done by Richard Orme.
Summary
Kindle 8.14 Android 9 All fundamental visual adjustment features are supported. The app is notable due to the ability to personalize the margin control and line spacing. There is no integrated read aloud feature.
Test ID | Name | Description | Result | Notes |
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visual-010 | Change font size | Use the controls available in the application or else in the operating system to change (increase/decrease) the size of the font. The font size change should apply uniformly on all the book content including the Table of Contents, Footnotes, Page List, Notes and Bookmarks. | Pass | In addition to text size, it is possible to choose narrow, normal and wide margins, and narrow, normal and wide line spacing. |
visual-110 | Change background and foreground color | Change background and foreground colour (May be through reading system feature or through OS settings). | Pass | Themes of white, black, sepia and green are provided. |
visual-210 | Change brightness | Use the controls available in the application or else in the operating system to change (increase/decrease) the screen brightness. | Pass | The screen brightness can be controlled from within the app. |
visual-310 | Apply high contrast system configuration | The reading system interface and book content except images should respect the high contrast mode (invert colors) if present in the Operating System. | Pass | |
visual-410 | Magnify the User Interface(UI) | Use the controls available in the application or else in the operating system to magnify the Reading System screen. All aspects of the User Interface such as Menus, Pop-up Windows, Dialog Boxes and Search Box should get magnified uniformly. | Pass | |
visual-510 | Change Font | Choose from a selection of fonts, including sans-serif and serif options. | Pass | A number of fonts are provided, including OpenDyslexic. |
visual-610 | Support for SVG | Check if a image is displayed below this paragraph. This image is in SVG format. | Pass | The SVG image is displayed. |
visual-710 | Enlarge SVG image | Check if the image given in the previous test can be enlarged. | Pass | The image can be enlarged using the magnification feature of the OS. The app itself does not provide the feature to change the size of the displayed SVG image. |
Results for Read Aloud: 0%
Last updated: 21 January 2022
Test book used: Fundamental Accessibility Tests: Read Aloud, version 1.0.0
These tests were done by Richard Orme.
Summary
Kindle 8.14 The Select to speak feature in Android will read some of the controls, but not the book content itself. There is no integrated read aloud feature.
Test ID | Name | Description | Result | Notes |
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ReadAloud-010 | The content can be read aloud | Focus on the beginning of a paragraph or a sentence and initiate reading with text-to-speech using a feature of the reading system. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-110 | Stop and resume reading | Initiate reading from any point in the book. Stop Read Aloud and note the last read position. Initiate reading again using the Read Aloud feature and check if reading starts at the last read location. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-210 | The Read Aloud feature should continue until interrupted by the user | The Read Aloud feature should continue until interrupted by the user, keeping the text being spoken in view. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-310 | All text should be read in the proper order | Sample text has been provided below to test the reading order. The Paragraph 2 should be read after Paragraph 1 by the Read Aloud feature. Note that visually Paragraph 2 is placed to the left of Paragraph 1 but it is second in the reading order. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-410 | Change Read Aloud reading speed | It should be possible to adjust (increase/decrease) the speed of reading. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-510 | Text to Speech handles punctuations and document structure appropriately | When Read Aloud is activated, there should be slight pauses after headings, list items etc., rather than reading as if it is one continuous section of text. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-610 | Text is emphasised as it is spoken by read aloud | Check if the Text is emphasised as it is spoken by read aloud. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |
ReadAloud-710 | The emphasis or highlight colour can be changed | Activate Read Aloud feature as described in the previous test. Change the colour of emphasis or visual highlight of the text being read aloud using any feature available in the reading system or the operating system. The users should have a choice of different colours for text highlighting. | Fail | No integrated read aloud feature is provided. |