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Accessibility for Kindle Fire.

The All-New Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX tablets come with new and improved accessibility tools so that all customers can enjoy their books, movies, apps, and more on their Kindle.

Need help using accessibility features?

Visit our Accessibility for Kindle Fire HDX help section.

Viewing accessibility features on a Kindle Fire tablet

Blind and Visually Impaired

Screen Reader, powered by IVONA Text-to-Speech

Screen Reader provides spoken feedback to describe the actions that take place on your screen and features IVONA's award-winning natural language text-to-speech voices.

Explore by Touch

Explore content on your Kindle Fire using accessibility gestures to navigate item-by-item as well as by touch. Kindle Fire recognizes five accessibility shortcut gestures that help you quickly navigate to home, go back, or access your notifications, the local context menu, and your tablet's accessibility settings.

Adjustable Reading Speed

Control how fast your Screen Reader speaks. The rate at which Screen Reader and Explore by Touch feedback is spoken can be set to one of five different speeds of your choice.

Explore by Touch Tutorial

Kindle Fire's Explore by Touch tutorial helps you master useful gestures for operating your Kindle Fire when Explore by Touch is enabled.

Braille Support

Kindle Fire also works with popular Bluetooth refreshable braille displays. To enjoy a braille experience on your Kindle Fire, download the free BrailleBack app from the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Low vision

Screen Magnifier

Take a closer look with Screen Magnifier. Easily activated with a triple tap on the screen, Screen Magnifier allows you to pinch to adjust the zoom level on your tablet while the display is magnified, as well as swipe with two fingers to pan around the page.

Larger Font Size

Read easily by increasing the font size of menus and text throughout your Kindle Fire. You can also choose from one of five font size options for your emails and one of 11 font size options when reading eBooks.

High Contrast

The text and background colors used on Kindle Fire provide high-contrast color combinations to make it easier to view your content and use your tablet.

 Kindle Fire tablet low vision interface
Watching a video with closed captioning on a Kindle Fire tablet

Hearing

Closed Captioning

Watch your Amazon Instant Videos with closed captioning displayed. Look for the CC icon when shopping for movies and TV shows. Captions are not available for all titles.

Stereo to Mono Audio

If you are using a single ear bud or have hearing in one ear, simply switch the stereo audio setting to mono on your Kindle Fire to direct the audio into a specific ear bud.

Mobility

Bluetooth Navigation

The All-New Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX tablets come with enhanced support for Bluetooth keyboard navigation that enables screens, menus, and buttons to be accessed using an external keyboard.


Help

Accessibility User Guide

Learn more about using the accessibility tools on your Kindle Fire in the on-device Accessibility User Guide. The guide provides helpful instructions and tips for using accessibility tools with the different features on your Kindle Fire.

 A menu of Kindle Fire tablet accessibility features
Reading on Kindle

The All-New Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX tablets, the Kindle Reading App for iOS, and the Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plug-in offer accessibility features that enable you to:

  • Read aloud over 1.8 million titles available in the Kindle Store using screen reading technology.
  • Navigate within your library or within a book, with consistent title, menu and button names.
  • Read character-by-character, word-by-word, or continuously, as well as move forward or backward in the text (not available for Kindle for PC).
  • Search for a book within your library or search within your book and navigate to specific locations.
  • Look up words in the dictionary and Wikipedia (not available for Kindle for PC).
  • Customize the reading experience including changing the font, text size, background color, margin, and brightness.
  • On the Kindle Reading App for iOS also use accessibility features like Zoom, Assistive Touch, and Stereo to Mono, as well as peripheral braille displays.

Kindle Reading App for iOS

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> Download Kindle for iPhone
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Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin

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Note: In order to use the text-to-speech feature in Kindle for PC, an external screen reader program must be installed and running on the Windows PC. Tested screen readers include JAWS, NVDA and Microsoft Narrator.

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Feedback

We want to hear about your experience using accessibility tools with Kindle products. Please email us at kindle-accessibility@amazon.com to provide feedback.

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