My Mom loves to read but her Macular Degeneration Linked to Age has suddenly worsened in April 2022 and she can no longer drive, write or read, even kindle books with large fonts, as she used to. By the way why aren't audiobooks available on kindle in France?
I have started to train her to use Audible on a new smart phone but several challenges remain, including (apparently) the lack of an easy way to use vocal commands. My goal is to engage as many 'players' as possible in this field in France (see my new blog Voyage en DMLA) to make them help out people who cannot see, starting with helping them listen to audiobooks, including via their public libraries like it's easy to do with Libby in the US. I could not find if Libby is present in France (I found later they are not). There are also numerous other problems she is facing that I have listed but I'll stick for now to this only one about accessibility of audiobooks.
Thank you in advance if you can help.
Small example of wrong audible design below.
The arrow to click is at the bottom of the page, while there is plenty of useless content for someone who cannot read. The arrow is much too small for Mom to see and click on it :( Maybe Alexa would do it but when I asked the Google Assistant she answered she could only open google books :( although she had been able/willing to open the Audible app.
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