The Kindle should have the option to toggle between left text justification and full text justification. Instead, the Kindle software forces full justification. Accessibility is reduced for low vision users since fully justified books at large font settings have distracting rivers of white.
The dialog for toggling text justification exists in all Kindles, even the Kindle 1, but it is hidden requiring the user to modify their firmware to expose this very useful functionality. Why did the developers do this?
I'm guessing the product manager for the Kindle decided that since some publishers force full justification in the their book markup on the paragraph level, that it would be too much trouble to explain to users why the text justification toggle works with some books and not others. Lazy! The real solution would be update the kindle renderer to override the publisher or mandate that publishers stop forcing text justification so that the user could decide how they want their text justified.
Amazon, at the very least, please unhide the text justification dialog. That would allow me to enjoy some of my books at large font settings.
Get more detail about Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G, 9.7" Display, Graphite, 3G Works Globally – Latest Generation.
No comments:
Post a Comment